A strange "time-traveler" doctor begins opening clinics dedicated to the past, offering promising treatments for those with memory loss and Alzheimer's. Each room on each floor is furnished with décor from different decades, with the tiniest details creating an atmosphere that transports patients back in time. As the process becomes successful, healthy people begin flocking to the clinics, seeking refuge in the warm cavern of the past, which is gradually swallowing up the present and taking over the world.
How much of the past can a person bear? How much of the past can a country bear?
If we are not present in a memory, do we really exist?

A novel about the shelters we build in time, after realizing that the future has been stolen from us, and the present is no longer our home.

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"A timely novel... a novelist who writes with brilliance and great warmth."
The Guardian

"A novel that represents the most elegant literature."
Olga Tokarczuk

"A wonderful novel, full of humor and melancholy."
Leila Slimani, Chair of the Booker International Prize Jury.

The novel "Time Shelter" won
Booker International Prize 2023

Georgi Gospodinov: Bulgarian short story writer, poet, novelist and playwright.

Critics describe Gospodinov as a "mocker of despair" and one of the greatest European writers who dares to break down genre barriers.