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.
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.