num_pages: 304
description: Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his labyrinth-like Kafkaesque tales of contemporary Europe.In Time Shelter an enigmatic flneur 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 sheltera 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 announces Gospodinov to American readers as an essential voice in international literature.
language: English
title: Time Shelter
publisher: Liveright