{"product_id":"9781399623162-the-man-with-many-names","title":"The Man with Many Names","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant, mind-expanding collection of short stories from the author of the Booker Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eTime Shelter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A girl born with two different eyes - one seeing only the past and the other only the future - strives for the unattainable now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56585116516726,"sku":"9781399623162","price":16.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41091019.jpg?v=1777628668","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781399623162-the-man-with-many-names","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}