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Time Shelter: A Masterful Satire on Nostalgia and the Past

**Winner of the International Booker Prize 2023**, Time Shelter is a thought-provoking and brilliantly crafted novel by acclaimed Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov. This satirical masterpiece explores our insatiable obsession with nostalgia and the past, while offering a chilling commentary on the realities of our present.

A Clinic for the Past: A Remedy for a Troubled Present?

The novel follows the enigmatic flaneur Gaustine, who establishes a unique "clinic for the past." This clinic offers a seemingly revolutionary treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor meticulously recreates a specific decade, transporting patients back in time.

However, as the clinic's recreations become increasingly convincing, a disturbing trend emerges. More and more healthy individuals seek refuge in this "time shelter," yearning to escape the anxieties and challenges of the present. This begs the question: is our pursuit of the past a coping mechanism, a form of escapism, or a dangerous denial of the present?

Critical Acclaim and a Masterful Translation

Time Shelter has received widespread critical acclaim, solidifying Georgi Gospodinov's reputation as a leading voice in international literature.

**Here's what some renowned authors and publications have to say:**

* **Olga Tokarczuk, author of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead:** "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."

* **The Guardian:** "Could not be more timely... A writer of great warmth as well as skill."

* **Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs:** "In equal measure playful and profound. I loved it."

* **The Times:** "A genrebusting novel of ideas... And accident, in combination with the book's own merits, may just have created a classic."

* **Sandro Veronesi, author of The Hummingbird:** "A powerful and brilliant novel: clear-sighted, foreboding, enigmatic."

* **The New York Times:** "Touching and intelligent."

Time Shelter is expertly translated by Angela Rodel, ensuring the nuanced complexities of Gospodinov's prose are faithfully rendered for English readers.

A Must-Read for Our Times

Time Shelter is more than just a captivating story; it is a potent reflection of our collective anxieties, our yearning for simpler times, and our complex relationship with the past. With its captivating narrative, insightful observations, and thought-provoking questions, Time Shelter is a compelling read that will linger long after you finish the final page.

<p>The World : A Family History</p>

<p>THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR</p>

<p>ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR</p>

<p>From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family.</p>

<p>We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on an exhilarating epic journey through the families that have shaped our world: the Caesars, Medicis and Incas, Ottomans and Mughals, Bonapartes, Habsburgs and Zulus, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Krupps, Churchills, Kennedys, Castros, Nehrus, Pahlavis and Kenyattas, Saudis, Kims and Assads.</p>

<p>A rich cast of complex characters form the beating heart of the story. Some are well-known leaders, from Alexander the Great, Attila, Ivan the Terrible and Genghis Khan to Hitler, Thatcher, Obama, Putin and Zelensky. Some are creative, from Socrates, Michelangelo and Shakespeare to Newton, Mozart, Balzac, Freud, Bowie and Tim Berners-Lee.</p>

<p>Others are lesser-known: Hongwu, who began life as a beggar and founded the Ming dynasty; Kamehameha, conqueror of Hawaii; Zenobia, Arab empress who defied Rome; King Henry of Haiti; Lady Murasaki, first female novelist; Sayyida al-Hurra, Moroccan pirate-queen. Here are not just conquerors and queens but prophets, charlatans, actors, gangsters, artists, scientists, doctors, tycoons, lovers, wives, husbands and children.

This is world history on the most grand and intimate scale - spanning centuries, continents and cultures, and linking grand themes of war, migration, plague, religion, medicine and technology to the people at the centre of the human drama. As spellbinding as fiction, The World captures the story of humankind in all its joy, sorrow, romance, ingenuity and cruelty in a ground-breaking, single narrative that will forever shift the boundaries of what history can achieve.</p>

<p>My Life In Red And White</p>

<p>There is only one Arsène Wenger - and for the very first time, in his own words, this is his story.</p>

<p>In this definitive autobiography, the world-renowned, revolutionary football manager discusses his life and career, sharing his leadership principles for success on and off the field. At Arsenal, Wenger won multiple Premier League titles, a record number of FA Cups, and masterminded the historic 'Invincibles' season of 2003-2004. He changed the game in England forever, popularising an attacking approach and changing attitudes towards nutrition, fitness and coaching methods - and towards foreign managers. The book charts his extraordinary career, from his rise in France and Japan where he managed Nancy, Monaco and Nagoya Grampus Eight - clubs that also play in red-and-white - to his twenty-two years at the helm in north London.</p>

<p>A must-read not only for Arsenal supporters but football fans everywhere, MY LIFE IN RED AND WHITE illuminates the mystique surrounding one of the most respected managers in the world's most popular sport.</p>

<p>All This Could Be Different</p>

<p>'Sarah Thankam Mathews' prose is undeniable . . . she captures the sneaky, unsaying parts of longing' Raven Leilani, author of Luster</p>

<p>'Some books are merely luminous . . . this one is iridescent' Susan Choi, author of Trust Exercise</p>

<p>Graduating into a recession, Sneha tries on adulthood like an ill-fitting suit. Moving to a new city, she embraces all that it has to offer: friends that feel like family, gay bars, house parties and new romances. But when painful secrets rear their heads, corporate jobs go off the rails and evictions loom, Sneha and her community find themselves looking for a new way to live.</p>

<p>All This Could Be Different is a novel about being young in the twenty-first century. About work, precarity, distant parents, found family, activism, queer love, sex and hope. About knowing that all this could be different.</p>

<p>The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-first Century</p>

<p>Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight of the ten largest armies, five nuclear powers, massive technological innovation, the newest crop of top-ranked universities. Asia is also the world's most ethnically, linguistically and culturally diverse region of the planet, eluding any remotely meaningful generalization beyond the geographic label itself. Even for Asians, Asia is dizzying to navigate.</p>

<p>Whether you gauge by demography, geography, economy or any other metric, Asia is already the present - and it is certainly the future. It is for this reason that we cannot afford to continue to get Asia so wrong. The Future Is Asian accurately shows Asia from the inside-out, telling the story of how this mega-region is coming together and reshaping the entire planet in the process.</p>