Time Shelter

Winner of the Premio Strega Europeo

Time Shelter
Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel
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Hardback
h238 x 158mm - 304pg
12 May 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781474623025
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' I' ve put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that can never be fully exhausted-books that demand to be revisited every now and then. ' OLGA TOKARCZUK, WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE' Expansive, soulful, mind-bending' DAVE EGGERS, AUTHOR OF THE CIRCLE' In equal measure playful and profound, Georgi Gospodinov' s Time Shelter renders the philosophical mesmerizing, and the everyday extraordinary. I loved it' CLAIRE MESSUD, AUTHOR OF THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS' A powerful and brilliant novel: clear-sighted, foreboding, enigmatic' SANDRO VERONESI, AUTHOR OF THE HUMMINGBIRD ' Gospodinov is one of the leading writers in Europe: every book is an event' GARTH GREENWELL, THE NEW YORKER 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. 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.
The most exquisite kind of literature, on our perception of time and its passing, written in a masterful and totally unpredictable style. Each page comes as a surprise, so that you never know where the author is going to take you next. I' ve put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that can never be fully exhausted-books that demand to be revisited every now and then. * Olga Tokarczuk, author of THE BOOKS OF JACOB and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature * In equal measure playful and profound, Georgi Gospodinov' s Time Shelter renders the philosophical mesmerizing, and the everyday extraordinary. I loved it. * Claire Messud * Gospodinov is one of Europe' s most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists, and this his most expansive, soulful and mind-bending book. * Dave Eggers * A powerful and brilliant novel: clear-sighted, foreboding, enigmatic. A novel in which the future gives way like a rotten beam and the past rushes in like a flood. * Sandro Veronesi, author of THE HUMMINGBIRD and twice winner of the Premio Strega * Gospodinov writes like a botanist of the soul: he knows the effects that the pretty mushrooms and the hidden herbs within ourselves can do, in spite of what they look like from afar. The living beings he studies are our versions of our past, the unretrievable, the recreated, the future versions of our past, and how we imbue them with the fantasies and poisons that we cultivate in silence. * Yuri Herrera, author of SIGNS PRECEDING THE END OF THE WORLD * Georgi Gospodinov is unique in many ways. I' ve been reading him since the beginning and I know that no one can combine an intriguing concept, wonderful imagination and perfect writing technique like he can. This is great prose. * Olga Tokarczuk, author of THE BOOKS OF JACOB and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature * In this book, time sneaks away, and then returns, reconstituted. Franz Ferdinand is re-assassinated. The cigarettes you liked as a teenager are on sale again. Communism is back, and nice. The book is a satire, witty and scorching, but it is also wise and tender. * Joan Acocella * An extraordinary romp through time and memory, a beautifully written and wonderfully inventive meditation on what the past means to us, whether we can recapture it and how it defines our present. This is the perfect novel for these cloistered atemporal times. * Alberto Manguel, author of A HISTORY OF READING *
Georgi Gospodinov was born in Yambol, Bulgaria, in 1968. His works have now been translated to acclaim in 25 languages, have been shortlisted for more than a dozen international prizes - including the PEN Literary Award for Translation, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, the Bruecke Berlin Preis, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Literaturpreis - and have won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the 2019 Angelus Literature Central Europe Prize and the 2021 Premio Strega Europe, among others.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781474623025
Published: 12 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Hardback
Height: 238mm
Width: 158mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 304

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