{"product_id":"time-shelter-9781474623070","title":"Time Shelter","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\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 nigh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most exquisite kind of literature\u003c\/b\u003e, 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. \u003cb\u003eI'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\u003c\/b\u003e. * Olga Tokarczuk, author of THE BOOKS OF JACOB and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature *\u003cbr\u003eIn equal measure \u003cb\u003eplayful and profound\u003c\/b\u003e, Georgi Gospodinov's \u003ci\u003eTime Shelter\u003c\/i\u003e renders the philosophical mesmerizing, and the everyday extraordinary. I loved it. * Claire Messud *\u003cbr\u003eGospodinov is one of Europe's \u003cb\u003emost fascinating and irreplaceable novelists\u003c\/b\u003e, and this \u003cb\u003ehis most expansive, soulful and mind-bending book\u003c\/b\u003e. * Dave Eggers *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003epowerful and brilliant\u003c\/b\u003e novel: \u003cb\u003eclear-sighted, foreboding, enigmatic\u003c\/b\u003e. A novel in which the future gives way like a rotten beam and the past rushes in like a flood. * Sandro Veronesi, author of THE HUMMINGBIRD and twice winner of the Premio Strega *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Shelter\u003c\/i\u003e is Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov's third novel, and  for all its focus on the apparently bygone, it \u003cb\u003ecould not be more timely\u003c\/b\u003e... It's\u003cb\u003e 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\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003ci\u003eTime Shelter\u003c\/i\u003e 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... \u003cb\u003eTrue to form, Gospodinov finds humour in the bleakness\u003c\/b\u003e... This novel could have been a clever, high-concept  intellectual game with little by way of emotional investment, but  \u003cb\u003eGospodinov is a writer of great warmth as well as skill\u003c\/b\u003e... 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 - \u003ci\u003eTime Shelter\u003c\/i\u003e - 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. * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA genrebusting novel of ideas.\u003c\/b\u003e This is a book about memory, how it fades and how it is restored, even reinvented, in the imaginations of addled individuals and the civic discourse of nations . . . His vision of tomorrow is the nightmare from which Europe knows it must awake. And accident, in combination with the book's own merits, \u003cb\u003emay just have created a classic\u003c\/b\u003e -- Simon Ings * THE TIMES *\u003cbr\u003eThe morality of artificially returning people to the past, and the broader question of whether this truly brings solace - whether indulgence in nostalgia is curative or pernicious - is the central question of Georgi Gospodinov's newly translated novel... \u003cb\u003eTouching and intelligent\u003c\/b\u003e -- Adrian Nathan West, * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (USA) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn immensely enjoyable book\u003c\/b\u003e which achieves depth with an affable narrative voice -- Declan O'Driscoll * IRISH TIMES *\u003cbr\u003eMr. Gospodinov, one of Bulgaria's most popular contemporary writers, is a nostalgia artist. In the manner of Orhan Pamuk and Andrei Makine, his books are preoccupied with memory, its ambiguous pleasures and its wistful, melancholy attraction . . . This difficult but rewarding novel concludes with an image of Europe brought to the brink of renewed conflict - an abstraction that recent events have imbued with the terrible force of reality -- Sam Sacks * WALL STREET JOURNAL (USA) *\u003cbr\u003eGospodinov cunningly draws attention  to the violence that the past wreaks on the present. * New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGospodinov writes like a botanist of the soul\u003c\/b\u003e: he knows the effects that the pretty mushrooms and the hidden herbs within ourselves can do, in spite of what they look like from afar. The living beings he studies are our versions of our past, the unretrievable, the recreated, the future versions of our past, and how we imbue them with the fantasies and poisons that we cultivate in silence. * Yuri Herrera, author of SIGNS PRECEDING THE END OF THE WORLD *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorgi Gospodinov is unique in many ways. I've been reading him since the beginning and I know that \u003cb\u003eno one can combine an intriguing concept, wonderful imagination and perfect writing technique like he can\u003c\/b\u003e. This is great prose.\u003c\/p\u003e * Olga Tokarczuk, author of THE BOOKS OF JACOB and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature *\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, \u003cb\u003etime sneaks away, and then returns, reconstituted\u003c\/b\u003e. Franz Ferdinand is re-assassinated. The cigarettes you liked as a teenager are on sale again. Communism is back, and nice. The book is a satire, witty and scorching, but it is also wise and tender. * Joan Acocella *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinary romp through time and memory\u003c\/b\u003e, a beautifully written and wonderfully inventive meditation on what the past means to us, whether we can recapture it and how it defines our present. This is \u003cb\u003ethe perfect novel for these cloistered atemporal times\u003c\/b\u003e. * Alberto Manguel, author of A HISTORY OF READING *\u003cbr\u003eMemory and kitsch - and their painful congruence in post-Soviet Europe - will be familiar themes to readers of Gospodinov's last book, \u003ci\u003eThe Physics of Sorrow.\u003c\/i\u003e The novels share allusive, discontinuous narratives, an appetite for switching genres, an alertness to the power and the fragility of authorship and a dark humour rimed with grief. But in \u003ci\u003eTime Shelter,\u003c\/i\u003e finished shortly before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Gospodinov's sights are higher and his scope - conceptually and geographically - far wider . . . And the paradoxes that hummed quietly in the background of previous books roar into apocalyptic high gear -- Madoc Cairns * LITERARY REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003eGospodinov's digressive, philosophical novel is less a work of realist literature than an allegory about the perils of looking backward  . . . translator Rodel keeps the narrator's wry voice consistent . . . the story achieves a pleasurably Borges-ian strangeness while sending a warning signal about how memory can be glitch-y and dangerous . . . An ambitious, quirky, time-folding yarn * KIRKUS REVIEWS (USA) *\u003cbr\u003eA radical new therapy tests the power of nostalgia in the electric and fantastical latest from Gospodinov (The Physics of Sorrow). The clever prose sells the zany premise and imbues it with poignant longing . . . Thought-provoking and laced with potent satire, this deserves a spot next to Kafka * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (USA) *\u003cbr\u003eGeorgi Gospodinov is one of the most interesting and innovative writers of this century and \u003ci\u003eTime Shelter\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful reflection on time, nostalgia and the soul. * Camilla Grudova *\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739618554199,"sku":"9781474623070","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474623070.jpg?v=1720052747","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/time-shelter-9781474623070","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}