Your Name Here

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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2025 by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Post-post modern

You will either like it or hate it. It certainly is one of a kind. It helps to have a hard copy at hand.

Nothing

This book was a rambling & boring waste of my time and my money. I wish I could get both back

Completely Astonishingly Brilliant

I love this book, so funny so deep, so intricate, so wise. I’ve just finished and am starting it all over again.

The narrator deserves an Academy Award, a tour de force of accent, intonation and wit

My god!!!!

Self-indulgent mess

It’s hard to listen to, hard to follow, and hard to like. Maybe it’s for a tiny niche of people who can relate to the creation of a new novel? But it’s not most people. This book is a dumping of brain activity for other people to read or listen to, and it’s too much. Not enjoyable.