Inventory of Losses

**Winner of the WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION and the HELEN AND KURT WOLFF TRANSLATION PRIZE** **Winner of the Society of Authors'' FIRST TRANSLATION AWARD** **Longlisted for the INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE** "A fine example of everyone''s favourite genre: the genre-defying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jeweller''s eye for detail" JOHN SELF, Guardian "As we deal with the consequences, emotional and material, of a pandemic, it is hard to imagine a better guide to the resources of hope than Schalansky''s deeply engaging inventory" MICHAEL CRONIN, Irish Times "Weaving fiction, autobiography and history, this sumptuous collection of texts offers meditations on the diverse phenomena of decomposition and destruction" Financial Times "Books of the Year" "Pure gold storytelling" SJON Judith Schalansky''s strange and