{"product_id":"man-with-many-names","title":"Man with Many Names","description":"\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","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57533234643288,"sku":"9781399623162","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781399623162.jpg?v=1781784085","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/man-with-many-names","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}