Is There Anybody to Love You? Dalkey Archive Essentials “From Out of the City

“From Out of the City is intricate

Sorrentino evokes this unyieldingly grim Brooklyn boyhood

Includes work by Mariam Bekauri

He is the 2012 winner of the Heimrad Bäcker Prize

Is There Anybody to Love You? Dalkey Archive Essentials “From Out of the CityIn these pages, you will meet the Collector of Valuable Things (packs of cigarettes, love letters, a magpies feather), a private eye at the end of his rope, and a young boy coming to terms, like the rest of us, with the mysteries of his existence. Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. A hymn to the city of Sofia, a series of whimsical character portraits, a literary mural of Bulgaria at the beginning of the twenty first century, Is There