Georgi Gospodinov presents The Man with Many Names
About this Event
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About the book:
Exhibiting a world-renowned author at his most playful and profound, The Man with Many Names captures the peculiarities of existence across forty tales set in and around his beloved Bulgaria, in and around this fading world.
On a train through the poppy-laden Balkans, strangers spend their time sharing stories only to be lost in translation. A lonely drifter becomes convinced he’s on television one frigid New Year’s Eve, his every move suddenly watched by millions. A girl born with two different eyes—one seeing only the past, the other seeing only the future—strives for the unattainable. A father hangs laundry between two cherry trees and sets off an absurd and historic series of events. What can we do in the last minutes of a dying sun? How will we recognize the faces from the final days? Lingering between these pages is a flaneur named Gaustine, a familiar trickster known to longtime Gospodinov fans.
The Man with Many Names echoes boldly through time and place, all the while remaining uncannily attuned to the profound nature of human connection—how one person’s single gesture can ripple through another’s life like fate. Masterfully translated by Angela Rodel, this is another wildly inventive contribution from “one of the indispensable writers of our times” (International Booker Prize Jury).
About the participants:
Georgi Gospodinov is the recipient of the International Booker Prize and the Premio Strega, among many other accolades. He lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Sofi Stambo is the author of People Who Live Alone Talk Too Much which won Restless Books’ Kellman Prize for Immigrant Literature. The book was longlisted for The Institute for Immigration Research 2026 New American Voices Award. Sofi Stambo was awarded the 2024 LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for short fiction for an excerpt from her novel This Train Has Sailed. Stambo won the first prize in fiction in 2015 Dzanc Books/Disquiet International literary contest. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2018. Stambo Has been awarded residencies at Sewanee and Bread Loaf Writers Conferences, Milley Arts and Art Omi.
About the Community in Translation series:
Community in Translation is an event series by Community Bookstore which gathers authors, translators, and literary figures for conversations on translated works. Featuring both contemporary and rediscovered books, this series brings thoughtful discussion of world literature to Brooklyn.
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