Meeting with Georgi Gospodinov in Oxford

22/05/2023; 7:00 p.m.; at Blackwell’s Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BQ

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The Bulgarian Cultural Institute London is pleased to invite you to a meeting with the great Bulgarian writer – Georgi Gospodinov in the famous “Blackwell’s” bookstore, Oxford. During the evening, the English edition of his latest novel “Time Shelter” will be presented.

Time Shelter

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 patients back in time.

As 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.

Intricately crafted, and eloquently translated by Angela Rodel, Time Shelter cements Georgi Gospodinov’s reputation as one of the indispensable writers of our times, a major voice in international literature.

The Author

Georgi Gospodinov is a Bulgarian poet, writer and playwright. One of the foremost European writers of today, says about him Alberto Manguel.

His latest book is the novel Time Shelter. Published in April 2020 amidst the quarantine and the peak of the pandemic, it topped the bestselling-books charts in Bulgaria