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The Man with Many Names: From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter
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A man and a woman, who have only known each other for a few hours and must soon part, sit in an airport cafe and invent an entire shared life together.
A girl born with two different eyes - one seeing only the past and the other only the future - strives for the unattainable now.
Late at night a father conspiratorially hangs laundry between two cherry trees in a tiny Bulgarian town in the 1970s and sets off a series of events that will turn absurdly historic.
A woman on a train passing through the poppy-filled Central European countryside waves at everyone she passes, unaware that a single gesture can ripple through another's life like fate.
A lonely drifter on a snowy New Year's Eve sees himself mirrored in a shop window TV, every move presumably watched by unseen millions and a world that had forgotten him.
A celebrated connoisseur of sunsets returns to the town where his absurd, lucrative career had begun to witness the world's very last dying of the light.
From the International Booker Prize-winning Georgi Gospodinov, comes a collection of his finest short stories - each with one eye on the past, one on the future; an ear for the crucial detail that everyone else is missing; and the ability to reveal the ever-changing, ever-beautiful world as you have never seen it before.
Translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel.
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Praise for The Man with Many Names
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Gospodinov is a writer of great warmth as well as skill - GuardianFor all Gospodinov's obsession with sorrow, he is a trickster at heart, and often very funny - New YorkerGeorgi Gospodinov is one of the most interesting and innovative writers of this centuryGospodinov's books stand somewhere between metafiction, autofiction, essay and thought experiment - London Review of BooksNo one can combine an intriguing concept, wonderful imagination and perfect writing technique like he can
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