Time Shelter

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023 <p></p><p></p>'The most exquisite kind of literature... I've put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that demand to be revisited every now and then. '<p></p>OLGA TOKARCZUK, author of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead<p></p><p></p>'Could not be more timely... A writer of great warmth as well as skill'<p></p>GUARDIAN<p></p><p></p>'In equal measure playful and profound. I loved it'<p></p>CLAIRE MESSUD, author of The Woman Upstairs<p></p><p></p> 'A genrebusting novel of ideas... And accident, in combination with the book's own merits, may just have created a classic'<p></p>THE TIMES <p></p><p></p>'A powerful and brilliant novel: clear-sighted, foreboding, enigmatic'<p></p>SANDRO VERONESI, author of The Hummingbird<p></p><p></p>'Touching and intelligent'<p></p>NEW YORK TIMES<p></p><p></p> In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. <p></p>But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic as a 'time shelter', hoping to escape from the horrors of our present... <p></p>Intricately crafted, and eloquently translated by Angela Rodel, Time Shelter cements Georgi Gospodinov's reputation as one of the indispensable writers of our times, a major voice in international literature.