The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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n. the realisation that each random passer-by is living a life as vivid and complex as your own - populate with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries, and inherited craziness - an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you'll never know exist, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

The Dictionary of Obscene Sorrows defines new words for emotions that we all feel but don't have the language to express. By turns poignant, relatable, and mind-bending, the definitions include whimsical etymologies drawn from languages around the world, interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human condition.

A truly original book, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives, which have far more in common than we think.

"Creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have" - John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars

Format: Hardback, 288 pages
ISBN: 9781501153648
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 20 January, 2022
Weight: 298 g
Dimensions: 185 x 135 x 27 mm

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