Your Name Here - Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff Moomin a Surrealist ancestor

a Surrealist ancestor

Conceived in the early '80s

a year after her husband killed himself

a patrilineal Jew from Venice (named after the Italian city but located on the mountain K2) who has memorized the complete works of Shakespeare

from prose poetry to nursery rhymes to philosophical novels

Your Name Here - Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff Moomin a Surrealist ancestorYour Name Here by Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff 600 page paperback published in 2025 by Dalkey Archive ISBN 9781628976267 *** 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