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

Winner of the Warwick Prize

Winner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize

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

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• Publication Date: December 21, 2021
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• Print Length: 258 Pages
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