The Story Smuggler
From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter
$30.60
- Hardcover
80 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2024
Summary
‘Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.
Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.
Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.
What we carry as concealed excess baggage is stories.’
In this exquisite literary gem, Georgi Gospodinov, winner of the International Booker Prize, invites the reader on a winding journey through his own memories.
He shows us a childhood under Communism, a particularly Bulgarian variety of melancholy, the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399623117 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399623117 |
| Author: | Georgi Gospodinov |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 174g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 136mm x 204mm |
Georgi Gospodinov
Georgi Gospodinov was born in Yambol, Bulgaria, in 1968. His works have been translated into 35 languages and shortlisted for more than a dozen international prizes. He won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the 2019 Angelus Literature Central Europe Prize, and the 2021 Premio Strega Europe. His short stories have been translated into multiple languages, won the Zinklar Prize for Best Short Fiction, been nominated for the Angelus award for Central European Literature, and longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Award. The story ‘Blind Vashya’ was adapted into an Oscar-nominated 2016 animated short film directed by Theodore Ushev. Gospodinov’s novel Time Shelter won the 2023 International Booker Prize.
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