**NOW LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021**"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,...

An Inventory of Losses von Schalansky, Judith und Smith, Jackie

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...