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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Von: John Koenig
Gesprochen von: John Koenig
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 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington Post

A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now.

Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.” Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.” Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you’ve never actually experienced. That’s “anemoia.”

If you’ve never heard of these terms before, that’s because they didn’t exist until John Koenig set out to fill the gaps in our language of emotion. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows “creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have,” says John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. 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—from “astrophe,” the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth, to “zenosyne,” the sense that time keeps getting faster.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives. This is the perfect gift for creatives, word nerds, and human beings everywhere. Philosophie Sozialwissenschaften Sprache, Vokabeln & Grammatik

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Another eight authors out of the 100 are the rare exception, a pleasant experience, where voice, and pace, and rhythm form a cohesive whole that makes for effortless listening.
And THEN there are two out of 100, the unicorn voices:
Voices that you'd want to be last thing you´d hear when you die. Voices that could read you tax laws and phone books, and you'd want them to never stop, and while they speak to you, you would know: all is well, and always will be.
This is one of those two voices, where it almost doesn't matter what the text is about.
(But of course, the book is full of beauty and poetry, as is this voice. What a team.)

80 out of 100 authors who perform

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