2021-03-02 · Judith Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses (238 pages; New Directions), newly translated into English by Jackie Smith, is a spell-binding meditation on the instinctive desire of humans to preserve everything despite the fact that everything will inevitably be lost.

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Format: Hardback. Publisher: Quercus Publishing. Published: 20th Aug '20. £20.00.

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Jackie Smith German writer Judith Schalansky cherishes people, places, and species that once were and no longer are in her latest book, An Inventory of Losses. Through this book, I am led to wonder, Are we destined to lose and to forget? • An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky (translated by Jackie Smith), is published by MacLehose Press (£20). To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply.

Mar 10, 2021 An Inventory of Losses, published in German by @Suhrkamp Verlag in 2018, is about both seeking and finding, losing and winning, and shows  About.

Judith Schalansky; Harper Collins With each passing year, parts of the world are lost. Species become extinct. Old texts fade from print. Artifacts are buried. Islands slip into the ocean. In An Inventory of Losses, Judith Schalansky surveys some of the things that have not held up to the test of time. From the Caspian […]

2021-04-16 · 2021-01-08 · An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky, 9780811229630, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. 2020-12-08 · Description With meticulous research and a vivid awareness of why we should care about these losses, Judith Schalansky, the acclaimed author of Atlas of Remote Islands, lets these objects speak for themselves: she ventriloquizes the tone of other sources, burrows into the language of contemporaneous accounts, and deeply interrogates the very notion of memory.

While I was working on this book, the Cassini spacecraft burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere; the Schiaparelli Mars lander crashed in the rust-colored rocky landscape of the planet it was supposed to be exploring; a Boeing 777 disappeared without trace en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing; in Palmyra, the 2,000-year-old Temples of Baal and Baalshamin, the facade of the Roman theater, the

But early on, Schalansky notes that sometimes the opposite happens — something is pulled back into public consciousness after a period of dormancy. Judith Schalansky begins An Inventory of Losses with a vignette from a northern European coastline, where she discovers a fishing town dominated not by a market square but instead by a graveyard 2021-04-16 · Booker International Longlist Book 10 rated by panellists Tracy, Rachel & BookWorm An Inventory of Losses Translated by Jackie Smith from German Published by Quercus, MacLehose Press Details from the official Booker Site: Each of the pieces within An Inventory of Losses follows the conventions of a different genre, considering something that is irretrievably lost… Schalansky doesn’t address this, and it’s unclear whether, to her, lost books mean we are robbed of completion and absolute knowledge, thus abandoned to confront a persistent feeling of dissatisfaction. Essays in An Inventory of Losses can be uneven, and some stand out more than others.

From the Caspian […] An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky. Browse The Guardian Bookshop for a big selection of General & world history books and the latest book reviews f Buy An Inventory of Losses 9781529400793 by Judith Schalansky for An Inventory of Losses, published in German by @Suhrkamp Verlag in 2018, is about both seeking and finding, losing and winning, and shows that the difference In An Inventory of Losses, Judith Schalansky surveys some of the things that have not held up to the test of time.
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AN INVENTORY OF LOSSES by Judith Schalansky ; translated by Jackie Smith ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 25, 2020 Objects, animals, and places that no longer exist, except in our collective imagination. Schalansky’s fifth book is a collection of beautifully constructed stories about objects that have not survived the test of time.

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