{"product_id":"9781474623070-time-shelter","title":"Time Shelter","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWinner of the International Booker Prize 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant, satirical skewering of our obsession with nostalgia and the past, written by a master of European literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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.  '\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOLGA TOKARCZUK, author of \u003ci\u003eDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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. A writer of great warmth as well as skill\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In equal measure playful and profound, \u003ci\u003eTime Shelter\u003c\/i\u003e renders the philosophical mesmerizing, and the everyday extraordinary. I loved it'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCLAIRE MESSUD, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Upstairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A genrebusting novel of ideas. Gospodinov's vision of tomorrow is the nightmare from  which Europe knows it must awake. And accident, in combination with the  book's own merits, may just have created a classic'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Gospodinov is one of Europe's most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists, and this his most expansive, soulful and mind-bending book'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVE EGGERS, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Circle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Touching and intelligent'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A powerful and brilliant novel: clear-sighted, foreboding, enigmatic'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSANDRO VERONESI, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hummingbird\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An immensely enjoyable book which achieves depth with an affable narrative voice'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eTime Shelter\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntricately crafted, and eloquently translated by Angela Rodel, \u003ci\u003eTime Shelter\u003c\/i\u003e  cements Georgi Gospodinov's reputation as one of the indispensable writers of our times, a major voice in international literature.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorgi Gospodinov\u003c\/b\u003e is one of Europe's most acclaimed writers. Originally from Bulgaria, his novels have won his country's most prestigious literary prize twice and have been shortlisted for more than a dozen international prizes - including the 2015 PEN Literary Award for Translation, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, the Premio Strega Europeo, the Bruecke Berlin Preis, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Literaturpreis. He has won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the 2019 Angelus Literature Central Europe Prize and the 2021 Premio Strega Europeo, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40774302498913,"sku":"9781474623070","price":8.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29807287.jpg?v=1725782107","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781474623070-time-shelter","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}