{"product_id":"9781399623162","title":"The Man with Many Names : From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Gospodinov, Georgi \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 22\/10\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 240 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781399623162,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A WRITER OF GREAT WARMTH AS WELL AS SKILL' GUARDIANA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA father, wearing only his underpants, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman on a train passing through the dandelion-filled central European countryside waves at everyone she passes, unaware that a single gesture can ripple through another's life like fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lonely drifter on a snowy New Year's Eve sees himself mirrored in a TV in a shop window, every move presumably watched by unseen millions and a world that had forgotten him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA celebrated connoisseur of sunsets returns to the town where his absurd, lucrative career began to witness the world's very last dying of the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the International Booker Prize-winning author Georgi Gospodinov, comes a collection of his finest short stories. Each has 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57657542738293,"sku":"9781399623162","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781399623162.jpg?v=1792139494","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781399623162","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}