WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023 A GUARDIAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE
YEAR'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. 'OLGA TOKARCZUK author of
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead'Could not be more timely... It's funny and absurd
but it's also frightening because even as Gospodinov plays with the idea as fiction the
reader begins to recognise something rather closer to home... A writer of great warmth as well
as skill'GUARDIAN'In equal measure playful and profound Time Shelter renders the philosophical
mesmerizing and the everyday extraordinary. I loved it'CLAIRE MESSUD author of The Woman
Upstairs 'A genrebusting novel of ideas... Gospodinov's vision of tomorrow is the nightmare
from which Europe knows it must awake. And accident in combination with the book's own merits
may just have created a classic'THE TIMES 'Gospodinov is one of Europe's most fascinating and
irreplaceable novelists and this his most expansive soulful and mind-bending book'DAVE EGGERS
author of The Circle'Touching and intelligent'NEW YORK TIMES'A powerful and brilliant novel:
clear-sighted foreboding enigmatic'SANDRO VERONESI author of The Hummingbird'An immensely
enjoyable book which achieves depth with an affable narrative voice'IRISH TIMES In Time Shelter
an enigmatic flâneur 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. 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 an
increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic as a 'time shelter' hoping to escape
from the horrors of our present - a development that results in an unexpected conundrum when
the past begins to invade the present. 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. Georgi Gospodinov is one of Europe's
most acclaimed writers. Originally from Bulgaria his novels have won his country's most
prestigious literary prize twice and have been shortlisted for more than a dozen international
prizes - including the 2015 PEN Literary Award for Translation the Premio Gregor von Rezzori
the Premio Strega Europeo the Bruecke Berlin Preis and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Literaturpreis. He has won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature the 2019 Angelus
Literature Central Europe Prize and the 2021 Premio Strega Europeo among others.
