About this Event
Lost City Books, in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Washington D.C., is thrilled to host renown Bulgarian author, Georgi Gospodinov, and his translator, Angela Rodel, to celebrate his latest book of stories, THE MAN WITH MANY NAMES.
About the book:
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 translators:
Georgi Gospodinov is the recipient of the International Booker Prize and the Premio Strega, among many other accolades. He lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Angela Rodel won the International Booker for translation and has received honors such as the PEN Translation Fund Grant. She lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Ena Selimović is a Yugoslav-American writer and translator. She co-founded Turkoslavia, a translation collective and journal. Her work has appeared in Words Without Borders, Los Angeles Review of Books, World Literature Today, and The Paris Review, among others, and has received support from the American Literary Translators Association, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Washington University in St. Louis.
Accessibility note: This event is up two flights of stairs and Lost City Books does not have an elevator. Please contact [email protected] with questions.
Dato de accesibilidad: Este evento toma lugar en el segundo piso y Lost City Books no tiene ascensor. Favor de contactar [email protected] con cualquiera duda.
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Lost City Books, 2467 18th Street Northwest, Washington, United States
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