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From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter, this kaleidoscopic 'novel of beginnings' offers a portrait of a man who can wander uninvited into other people's memories

At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created, " begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4, 004 years before Christ." But for our narrator, time as he knows it begins when he meets Gaustine, a "vagrant in time" who has distanced his life from co...

Written with a "formal playfulness [that] suggests Kundera with A.D.D." (illage Voice), Georgi Gospodinov's The Physics of Sorrow became an underground cult classic upon its 2012 release. In a radical reimagining of the minotaur myth, a narrator named Georgi constructs the story of his life like a labyrinth, meandering through the past to find the melancholy child at the center of it all. Spanning from antiquity to the Anthropocene, he catalog...

A brilliant, satirical skewering of our obsession with nostalgia and the past, written by a master of European literature.

A trickster at heart, and often very funny" (Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker), 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 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 patient...

In Time Shelter, an unnamed narrator meets Gaustine, a 'flâneur through time, ' who has uncoupled his life from his contemporary reality, reading old news, wearing old clothes, haunting the lost avenues of the twentieth century.Gaustine is the mind behind the first 'clinic for the past, ' an institution based in Zurich that offers an inspired treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a past decade in minute detail, allowing pa...

An intelligent, satirical skewering of our obsession with nostalgia and the past.

Shortlisted for prizes around the world, Georgi Gospodinov's thrilling new novel is about physics, myths, and the power of stories.