#19 in United Kingdom Fiction
The Man With Many Names
Georgi Gospodinov
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'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...
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