LITERARY FICTION / CONTEMPORARY FICTION

Time Shelter

Georgi Gospodinov

Translated by Angela Rodel

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Winner of the International Booker Prize 2023
Winner of the Premio Strega Europeo 2021

An enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a ‘clinic for the past’ in Zurich that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time.

As Gaustine’s assistant, the unnamed narrator is tasked with collecting the flotsam and jetsam of the past, from 1960s furniture and 1940s shirt buttons to scents and even afternoon light. But as the rooms become more convincing, a growing number of healthy people seek out the clinic as a ‘time shelter’, hoping to escape the horrors of the present – until the past begins to invade the present itself.

Intricately crafted and translated by Angela Rodel, Time Shelter is a funny, melancholy and unsettling novel about memory, nostalgia and the stories nations tell themselves.

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