Georgi Gospodinov

For fans of Yoko Ogawa and Dave Eggers, a mesmerizing, dystopian novel of time and memory from Bulgaria's most significant living writer.

Time Shelter

فيزياء الحزن

In Time Shelter, an unnamed narrator meets Gaustine, a 'flâneur through time,' who has uncoupled his life from his contemporary reality, reading old news, wearing old clothes, haunting the lost avenues of the twentieth century. Gaustine is the mind behind the first 'clinic for the past,' an institution based in Zurich that offers an inspired treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a past decade in minute detail, allowing patients to transport themselves back in time and find comfort in their fading memories. Yet an increasing number of healthy people are interested in seeking out the clinic as a form of 'time shelter,' hoping to escape from the horrors of our present, a development that results in an unexpected conundrum, when the past beings to invade the present.

Shortlisted for prizes around the world, Georgi Gospodinov's thrilling new novel is about physics, myths, and the power of stories.

The Physics of Sorrow

'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. ' OLGA TOKARCZUK, author of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead 'Could not be more timely... It's funny and absurd, but it's also frightening, because even as Gospodinov plays with the idea as fiction, the reader begins to recognise something rather closer to home... A writer of great warmth as well as skill' GUARDIAN 'In equal measure playful and profound, Time Shelter renders the philosophical mesmerizing, and the everyday extraordinary. I loved it' CLAIRE MESSUD, author of The Woman Upstairs 'A genrebusting novel of ideas... Gospodinov's vision of tomorrow is the nightmare from which Europe knows it must awake. And accident, in combination with the book's own merits, may just have created a classic' THE TIMES 'Gospodinov is one of Europe's most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists, and this his most expansive, soulful and mind-bending book' DAVE EGGERS, author of The Circle 'Touching and intelligent' NEW YORK TIMES 'A powerful and brilliant novel: clear-sighted, foreboding, enigmatic' SANDRO VERONESI, author of The Hummingbird 'An immensely enjoyable book which achieves depth with an affable narrative voice' IRISH TIMES 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. Georgi Gospodinov is one of Europe's most acclaimed writers. Originally from Bulgaria, his novels have won his country's most prestigious literary prize twice and have been shortlisted for more than a dozen international prizes - including the 2015 PEN Literary Award for Translation, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, the Premio Strega Europeo, the Bruecke Berlin Preis, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Literaturpreis. He has won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the 2019 Angelus Literature Central Europe Prize and the 2021 Premio Strega Europeo, among others.

Winner of the Premio Strega Europeo

Hüznün Fizigi

Vremeubežište

Zaman Siginagi

svrăchkratki istorii

Vsičkite naši tela

Resembling the complex and fragmented way a fly's eye works, Natural Novel contains a myriad of storylines, reflections, and digressions, including a history of toilets and the graffiti found there, a meditation on the relationship between bees and language, and an attempt to write a book using only verbs.Incredibly funny at times, this novel is driven by the narrator's need to come to terms with his dissolving marriage and his wife's infidelity with their close friend. Gospodinov's first novel is both broad in scope and intensely personal, illustrating the impossibility of presenting life truthfully.

Natural Novel

Fisica della malinconia

Dogal Roman

And Other Stories (Writings from an Unbound Europe)

Cronorifugio

Estestven roman

I drugi istorii

Hayatının uzun yıllarını bahçesine vakfetmiş olan babasının, “omuzlarında tonlarca geçmiş taşıyan bir Atlas” gibi gördüğü ve idealize ettiği kişinin ölümünü anlattığı bu kitabında Georgi Gospodinov, yeri doldurulamaz bir kayıp karşısında hissettiklerini içten ve etkileyici bir dille aktarırken, aynı zamanda hayat ve ölüm üzerine, sevgi ve yas üzerine, varoluşumuzu anlamlandıran ve yola devam etmemizi sağlayan şeyler üzerine derin bir tefekküre dalıyor.
 
“Onun bugüne kadarki varlığı, benim kendi varlığımı, çocukluğumun varlığını doğruluyordu. Öte yandan yokluğu hafızanın tüm mekanizmasını harekete geçiriyor. Uzun zamandır aklıma gelmeyen şeyler şimdi uyanıyor, onları ben uyandırıyorum – tüm bunların gerçekten olup bittiğinden emin olabilmek için. İstemli ve istemsiz bellek birlikte çalışıyor ve anıların paslanmış çarkını harekete geçiriyor, net görülmeyen yerleri temizliyor veya uyduruyor. Kabul etmeliyiz ki bu, vefat edene yönelik bir bellek çalışması olduğu kadar, kendimize de yöneliktir, benmerkezci, bir anlamda kendimizi kurtarmaya, birinin gidişinden sonra hayatta kalışımızı anlamlandırmaya yönelik bir uğraştır. — Bizi çocuk olarak hatırlayan son kişi de gittiğinde hâlâ var olduğumuz söylenebilir mi?”
 
2023 Uluslararası Booker Ödüllü yazardan içe işleyen bir anı-roman.

Bahçıvan ve Ölüm, Hasine Şen Karadeniz(çevirmen)

Баща ми беше градинар. Сега е градина.

Историята на един баща, един син и едно последно разсъмванe – милостива и безмилостна едновременно.

„Тази книга няма лесен жанр – пише Георги Господинов, – тя трябва сама да си го изобрети. Както смъртта няма жанр. Както животът. Както градината. Роман елегия, роман градина, мемоар или мемороман – има ли значение за ботаниката на тъгата. История за отиващите си бащи в един отиващ си свят. За тези трагични пушачи, често отсъстващи, вкопчени в шнорхела на цигарата, плуващи в други води и облаци. За баща ми, който крепеше на раменете си тонове минало и не спираше да го разказва. Тази Шехерезада – баща ми. Сега миналото се пропуква тихо и започва да се срутва върху мен с всичките си следобеди. Не книга за смъртта, а за живота, който чезне. Има разлика.“

Четири години след „Времеубежище“ Георги Господинов представя „Градинарят и смъртта“ – първата си книга след Международната награда „Букър“ (2023).

Georgi Gospodinov

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