An Evening with Georgi Gospodinov – at Hatchards, Piccadilly

Book tickets HERE

We are thrilled to welcome Georgi Gospodinov and his translator Angela Rodel  in conversation with Rosie Goldsmith. Georgi will be discussing his work and especially his brilliant new novel Time Shelter.

A genrebusting novel of ideas. (The Times)

From communism to the Brexit referendum and conflict in Europe, this funny yet frightening Bulgarian novel explores the weaponization of nostalgia. (The Guardian)

Georgi Gospodinov is one of the most renowned and respected voices of international literature, winner of the Premio Strega Europeo, Central European Angelus Award, Jan Michalski Prize etc.

In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur 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. 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.