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Published
W & N Fiction, June 2023
ISBN
9781474623070
Format
Softcover, 304 pages
Dimensions
19.6cm × 12.8cm × 2.4cm

Time Shelter Winner of the International Booker Prize 2023

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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023

'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

'A genrebusting novel of ideas... And accident, in combination with the book's own merits, may just have created a classic'

THE TIMES

'A powerful and brilliant novel: clear-sighted, foreboding, enigmatic'

SANDRO VERONESI, author of The Hummingbird

'Touching and intelligent'

NEW YORK TIMES

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.

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.

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