{"product_id":"the-man-with-many-names-by-georgi-gospodinov-9781399623179","title":"The Man with Many Names","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA girl born with two different eyes—one seeing only the past and the other only the future—strives for the unattainable now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLate 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the International Booker Prize-winning Georgi Gospodinov, comes a collection of his finest short stories. They are told with \u003cem\u003eone 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\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47874124153068,"sku":"9781399623179","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781399623179-the-man-with-many-names.jpg?v=1782982474","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-man-with-many-names-by-georgi-gospodinov-9781399623179","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}