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WINNER OF THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
New Yorker - Best Books of 2022
An award-winning international sensation--with a second-act dystopian twist--Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets.
Brief description: Georgi Gospodinov is the recipient of the International Booker Prize and the Premio Strega, among many other accolades. He lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Review Quotes: The 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... Adroit execution of such wordplay is a testament to the talent of the novel's translator, Angela Rodel. [Gospodinov] is sympathetic to the poignancy of things from before -- obsolete objects, old brands of coffee, the skipping of antique records -- but rebuffs the scapegoats of globalism, immigration and modernization that supposedly killed them off; we are all complicit in the destruction of history, and going backward can only mean intolerance and the exaltation of traditionalist kitsch. It's impossible, when reading all this, not to think of the reactionary sentiments behind Brexit and MAGA and even Putin's Greater Russia irredentism, but Gospodinov is too delicate to resort to crude political satire.... Touching and intelligent.--Adrian Nathan West "New York Times Book Review"