{"product_id":"an-inventory-of-losses","title":"An Inventory of Losses","description":"\u003cspan data-title-id=\"78933728\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"78933728\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEach 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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e With meticulous research and a vivid awareness of why we should care about these losses, Judith Schalansky, the acclaimed author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished: USA, 2021\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: New Directions\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 253\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 13: 9780811231411\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 10: 0811231410\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Judith Schalansky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39590244909159,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9780811231411.jpg?v=1641398055","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/an-inventory-of-losses","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}