Collector of Names explained

The Collector of Names
Title Orig:Zbiralec imen
Translator:Maja Visenjak Limon
Author:Miha Mazzini
Country:Slovenia
Language:English
Genre:Novel
Publisher:Severed Press
Pub Date:1993
English Pub Date:2009
Media Type:Print (paperback), ebook
Pages:218 pp
Isbn:9780980606539
Oclc:781000257
Preceded By:King of the Rattling Spirits
Followed By:German Lottery
Set In:Mediterranean Sea
Isbn Note:
(1st English ed)

The Collector of Names is a horror novel by Miha Mazzini. It was first published in Slovenia in 1993 and it was finalist of the Vladimir Slejko Prize for best novel of the year.

Plot

The story is set on a small island in the Mediterranean Sea. Students are coming to party, local pensioners are having their own fun, and suddenly there is a child among them asking them for their names. The person who actually answers him, giving away his name and identity, sinks into personal annihilation.