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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023 'The most exquisite kind of literature... I've put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that demand to be revisited every now and then. ' OLGA TOKARCZUK, author of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead 'Could not be more...

My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden. A man sits by his father's bedside and reports radically and gently until a final winter morning. His father was one of that generation of tragic smokers born right after the World War II in Bulgaria, who clung to the snorkels of their cigarettes. A...

'Compulsively readable' New York Times 'Utterly original' Alberto Manguel In the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest. Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from attacks of 'pathological empathy', which cause him to wander unbidden into...

'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons. Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous. Our contraband is undetectable by scanners. What we carry as concealed excess baggage is stories.' In this exquisite literary gem, Georgi Gospodinov, winner of the International Booker...

»Mein Vater war Gärtner. Jetzt ist er ein Garten.« In seinem bisher persönlichsten Roman lässt Georgi Gospodinov das Leben seines Vaters in einer bewegenden Hommage auferstehen. Mit Witz und Wärme feiert er den leidenschaftlichen Gärtner, der bis zum Schluss nicht vom Umgraben, Säen und Jäten abzubringen ist – und vom Geschichtenerzählen. Der Vater zeichnet mit seinen Worten ein Bild der Welt, überall und so lebendig, dass alle Schmerzen vergehen und der Blütenstaub der geschilderten Kirschbäume sich in den Aschenbechern seiner Ärzte wiederfindet.

Brimming with his signature warmth and wisdom, the Booker Prize–winning author of Time Shelter returns with a brilliant new collection of stories. Written over three decades, The Man with Many Names gathers the best of renowned author Georgi Gospodinov’s short fiction into a single new volume. Exhibiting the author at his most playful and profound, the collection captures the peculiarities of existence across forty-one tales set in and around his beloved Bulgaria: In “A Second Story,” strangers pass their time on a train through the Balkans telling stories only to be lost in translation.