Man With Many Names
Autor Georgi Gospodinov Traducere de Angela Rodelen Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 oct 2026
On a train through the poppy-laden Balkans, strangers spend their time sharing stories only to be lost in translation. A lonely drifter becomes convinced he's on television one frigid New Year's Eve, his every move suddenly watched by millions. A girl born with two different eyes-one seeing only the past, the other seeing only the future-strives for the unattainable. A father hangs laundry between two cherry trees and sets off an absurd and historic series of events. What can we do in the last minutes of a dying sun? How will we recognize the faces from the final days? Lingering between these pages is a flaneur named Gaustine, a familiar trickster known to longtime Gospodinov fans.
The Man with Many Names echoes boldly through time and place, all the while remaining uncannily attuned to the profound nature of human connection-how one person's single gesture can ripple through another's life like fate. Masterfully translated by Angela Rodel, this is another wildly inventive contribution from "one of the indispensable writers of our times" (International Booker Prize Jury).
Praise for Georgi Gospodinov
"A major voice in international literature."
?International Booker Prize jury
"Georgi Gospodinov is unique in many ways. I've been reading him since the beginning and I know that no one can combine an intriguing concept, wonderful imagination, and perfect writing technique like he can."
?Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize-winning author of Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
"Gospodinov's work is time-bound and time-free, haunted by time and fleeing from it."
?James Wood, The New Yorker
"Mr. Gospodinov, one of Bulgaria's most popular contemporary writers, is a nostalgia artist. In the manner of Orhan Pamuk and Andreï Makine, his books are preoccupied with memory, its ambiguous pleasures and its wistful, melancholy attraction."
?Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
"A writer of great warmth as well as skill."
?Patrick McGuinness, Guardian
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781324097310
ISBN-10: 1324097310
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 147 x 218 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: LIVERIGHT
ISBN-10: 1324097310
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 147 x 218 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: LIVERIGHT
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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 café 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.
A man and a woman, who have only known each other for a few hours and must soon part, sit in an airport café 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.