{"product_id":"9781399623162","title":"The Man With Many Names","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 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":"Weidenfeld \u0026#38; Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57656348901749,"sku":"9781399623162","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781399623162.jpg?v=1792070412","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9781399623162","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}