TIME SHELTER : WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023 A GUARDIAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThe most exquisite kind of literature... Ive 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 DeadCould not be more timely... Its funny and absurd, but its 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 skillGUARDIANIn equal measure playful and profound, Time Shelter renders the philosophical mesmerizing, and the everyday extraordinary. I loved itCLAIRE MESSUD, author of The Woman Upstairs A genrebusting novel of ideas... Gospodinovs vision of tomorrow is the nightmare from which Europe knows it must awake. And accident, in combination with the books own merits, may just have created a classicTHE TIMES Gospodinov is one of Europes most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists, and this his most expansive, soulful and mind-bending bookDAVE EGGERS, author of The CircleTouching and intelligentNEW YORK TIMESA powerful and brilliant novel: clear-sighted, foreboding, enigmaticSANDRO VERONESI, author of The HummingbirdAn immensely enjoyable book which achieves depth with an affable narrative voiceIRISH TIMES In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a clinic for the past that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimers sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. As Gaustines 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 une