Description
ISBN: 9781628976267
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2026
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Description:
A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.
A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America’s 'War on Terror', countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.
A metafictional Pygmalion story reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman‘s Oscar-nominated Adaptation, or Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler; Your Name Here is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself. A reminder that a masterpiece and a doomed voyage look the same at the start.
'A work of genius…What began as a playful collaboration became, like most of DeWitt’s work, weirder, riskier and more ambitious. After at least 20 drafts and countless revisions, it morphed into a 600-page work that resists categorisation and almost defies description.' – The New York Times Magazine
'An audacious metafiction...Readers will be left breathless.' – Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
'An ouroboros – and a big one at that – of a postmodern yarn that threatens to swallow itself at any moment...At once bewildering and beguiling, and a groaning-table feast of words.' –