Time Shelter: Winner of the International Booker Prize 2023

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead—Dave EggersTime Shelter—Claire MessudThe New YorkerSigns Preceding the End of the WorldTime ShelterA History of ReadingThe Hummingbird --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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, one of Bulgaria’s most lauded authors, has won the Angelus Central European Literature Award and the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, among many other accolades.

Angela Rodel, recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, is a prolific translator of Bulgarian literature. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.