Man with Many Names

'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 girl born with two different eyes - one seeing only the past and the other only the future, strives always to see the unattainable now.A father conspiratorially hangs laundry between two cherry trees in a tiny Bulgarian town in the 1970s and unwittingly sets off a series of events that will turn absurdly historic.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.A lonely drifter on a freezing New Year's Eve sees himself mirrored in a shop window TV, every move presumably watched by unseen millions and a world that has forgotten him.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.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.