An Inventory of Losses - Judith Schalansky, Jackie Smith - translator

Written by Judith Schalansky, Jackie Smith - translator
Read by Christina Delaine
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Longlisted for the 2021 International Bookerprize.

A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands.

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 12 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 ventriloquizes the tone of other sources, burrows into the language of contemporaneous accounts, and deeply interrogates the very notion of memory.

Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
Release date: 08-10-21