The stories of the Booker Prize winner Georgi Gospodinov: humor, delicacy and irony from the literary periphery. "Our personal stories are the only moves we have to prolong, even a little, a game with an announced ending," we read in The Man of Many Names.

In these pages we find a reflection on the human condition from the point of view of a pig while it is slaughtered, an analysis of the national character versus Balkan, the drawing of public urinals with the aim of giving the Diana relieving herself.