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Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel - translator
Narrated by: Toby Stephens
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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023

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.

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...

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.

©2022 Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel (P)2023 Orion Publishing Group Limited Dystopian Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction

Critic Reviews

'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... A writer of great warmth as well as skill' GUARDIAN

'In equal measure playful and profound. I loved it' CLAIRE MESSUD, author of The Woman Upstairs

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Concept heavy to the point of breaking

Some neat ideas, but the novel never quite seems to get to the point. It deconstructs and plays around w history, memory, the past, the self, the nation. Def interesting in parts, but padded w so much extra that became a bit of a slog.

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