{"product_id":"9781399623179","title":"The Man with Many Names : From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A WRITER OF GREAT WARMTH AS WELL AS SKILL' \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\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":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55732306116984,"sku":"9781399623179","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781399623179.jpg?v=1794281851","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781399623179","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}