Time Shelter
Winner of the International Booker Prize 2023
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A GUARDIAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
'The most exquisite kind of literature' OLGA TOKARCZUK, author of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
'Genrebusting ... Gospodinov may just have created a classic' THE TIMES
'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' GUARDIAN
Gaustine, an enigmatic flâneur, 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.
'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
'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
Readers are raving:
'The minute I finished it, I wanted to start from the beginning and immediately reread' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'This is a story about each of us' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'A timely dystopian novel written in pristine, razor-sharp prose' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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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.
In equal measure playful and profound, Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter renders the philosophical mesmerizing, and the everyday extraordinary. I loved it.
Gospodinov is one of Europe's most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists, and this his most expansive, soulful and mind-bending book.
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.
Time Shelter is Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov's third novel, and for all its focus on the apparently bygone, it 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. Time Shelter was written between the Brexit referendum and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, both of which represent, in their own ways, the weaponisation of nostalgia and the selection of particular eras in the time clinic of the not-so-new world order... True to form, Gospodinov finds humour in the bleakness... This novel could have been a clever, high-concept intellectual game with little by way of emotional investment, but Gospodinov is a writer of great warmth as well as skill... His affection for that period is sincere but also without illusion. He can draw out fully dimensional characters from the broken details of their fractured memories. His transitions - between humour and sadness, absurd situationism and reverberating tragedy, pathos and ironic observation - are never obtrusive. Thanks to the skill and delicacy of Angela Rodel's translation, these qualities are in abundant display for the anglophone reader... The novel's title - Time Shelter - is a neologism in Bulgarian as it is in English, a grafting from the noun "bomb shelter". It's well found in its ambiguity: sheltering from time, and sheltering within time. Both are attractive but impossible. Nostalgia used to feel like a source of harmless escape, and occasional sustenance. It is starting to seem like a fossil fuel, foreshortening our future as it burns.
I think the sooner one lets go of any conventional expectations one might have of a classic „novel“ while reading it, the better.
Instead, this was a simmering pot of philosophical musings/ observations, a mixture of history lessons and mind experiments.
I was more or less engaged almost throughout - but not entertained in the way I would like a novel to entertain me.
There were a few longish passages I could have done without and an overall definite lack of storyline or relatable characters.
I liked those passages the best in which Gospodinov ruminates on the phenomenon of time - in a stream-of-conciousness style. As I am the same age as the author, I could relate to a lot of these thoughts, and found the language quite pensive and lovely.
Yet I fear that I am not quite intellectual enough to truly understand this book. It is certainly very clever - but in my opinion, it lacks a beating heart.
Very intellectual and quite strange
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