An Inventory of Losses

✍ Scribed by Schalansky, Judith;Smith, Jackie

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: de-DE
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0811229947

✦ Synopsis

A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year

Each disparate object described in this book--a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific--shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, or Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and, taken as a whole, opens mesmerizing new vistas of how we can think about extinction and loss.
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...

✦ Subjects

Antiquities -- Fiction