{"product_id":"time-shelter-9781474623070b","title":"Time Shelter","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eGUARDIAN \u003c\/span\u003eAND \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eIn \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTime Shelter\u003c\/span\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, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTime Shelter \u003c\/span\u003ecements Georgi Gospodinov's reputation as one of the indispensable writers of our times, a major voice in international literature.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\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\u003eOLGA TOKARCZUK, author of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\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'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42821584846928,"sku":"9781474623070B","price":5.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781474623070-l.jpg?v=1785884283","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/time-shelter-9781474623070b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}