{"product_id":"an-inventory-of-losses-9780811229630","title":"An Inventory of Losses","description":"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, \u003cem\u003eAn Inventory of Losses\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e With meticulous research and a vivid awareness of why we should care about these losses, Judith Schalansky, the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eAtlas of Remote Islands\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchalansky, Judith:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJudith Schalansky\u003c\/strong\u003e, born in Greifswald in 1980, lives in Berlin and works as a writer, book designer, and editor (of the prestigious natural history list at Matthes und Seitz). Her books, including the international bestseller \u003cem\u003eAtlas of Remote Islands\u003c\/em\u003e and the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Giraffe's Neck, \u003c\/em\u003ehave been translated into more than twenty languages.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmith, Jackie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJackie Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e is a literary translator working from German and French into English. After graduating from Cambridge University she worked as a commercial translator before dedicating herself full-time to creative and book translations. In 2015 she was selected to participate in the New Books in German 'Emerging Translators Programme'. Her translation of an excerpt from Hans Platzgumer's novel \u003cem\u003eAm Rand\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eOn the Edge\u003c\/em\u003e) won the Austrian Cultural Forum London Translation Prize 2017.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51623515816210,"sku":"9780811229630","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_37bc134c-b86e-40fd-afa0-5e189a77d9de.jpg?v=1758639472","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-inventory-of-losses-9780811229630","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}