The Man with Many Names
From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter
$28.04
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
‘A WRITER OF GREAT WARMTH AS WELL AS SKILL’ GUARDIAN
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 always to see the unattainable now.
A father conspiratorially hangs laundry between two cherry trees in a tiny Bulgarian town in the 1970s and unwittingly sets…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399623179 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399623176 |
| Author: | Georgi Gospodinov |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 234mm |
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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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