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Georgi Gospodinov

Time Shelter

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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.
“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 contemporary reality by reading old news, wearing tattered old clothes, and haunting the lost avenues of the twentieth century.
In an apricot-colored building in Zurich, surrounded by curiously planted forget-me-nots, Gaustine has opened the first “clinic for the past,” an institution that offers an inspired treatment for Alzheimer's…
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  • finalfadeouthar citeratför 7 månader sedan
    Sooner or later all utopias turn into historical novels.
  • finalfadeouthar citeratför 7 månader sedan
    The nation nationalized, the fatherland fathered anew. I wrote that online. Less than an hour later I had been reported and my account had been blocked.
    I managed to catch a flight out the next day.
    The borders were closed two days later.
    After a dictatorship of the future, as my friend K. would say, came the dictatorship of the past.
    It’s nice to know your home country so well that you can leave it shortly before the trap springs.
    I had already lived through what was to come.
  • finalfadeouthar citeratför 7 månader sedan
    If anything can save this country from all the kitsch that is raining down on it, that is laziness and apathy alone.
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