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The Man with Many Names
- Author
- Georgi Gospodinov
- Narrator
- Mark Elstob
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 22 October 2026
- Run Time
- 7 hours 1 minute
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
A 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.
A 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.
A 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.
A 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.
A 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.
From 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.
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Details
- Author
- Georgi Gospodinov
- Narrator
- Mark Elstob
- Duration
- 7 hours 1 minute
- Release Date
- 22 October 2026
- ISBN
- 9781399623209
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Short stories, Fiction in translation, Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Synopsis
'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.A 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.A 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.A 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.A 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.From 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.
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