Time Shelter
(Libby/OverDrive eAudiobook)
Author
Contributors
Published
Dreamscape Media , 2022.
Status
Available from Libby/OverDrive
Available Platforms
Libby/OverDrive
Titles may be read via Libby/OverDrive. Libby/OverDrive is a free app that allows users to borrow and read digital media from their local library, including ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines. Users can access Libby/OverDrive through the Libby/OverDrive app or online. The app is available for Android and iOS devices.
Description
"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 sufferers: each floor reproduces a past decade in minute detail, allowing patients to transport themselves back in time to unlock what is left of their fading memories. Serving as Gaustine's assistant, the narrator is tasked with collecting the flotsam and jetsam of the past, from 1960s furniture and 1940s shirt buttons to nostalgic scents and even wisps of afternoon light. But as the charade becomes more convincing, an increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic to escape from the dead-end of their daily lives-a development that results in an unexpected conundrum when the past begins to invade the present. Through sharply satirical, labyrinth-like vignettes reminiscent of Italo Calvino and Franz Kafka, the narrator recounts in breathtaking prose just how he became entrenched in a plot to stop time itself. "A trickster at heart, and often very funny" (Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker), prolific Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov masterfully stalks the tragedies of the last century, including our own, in what becomes a haunting and eerily prescient novel teeming with ideas. Exquisitely translated by Angela Rodel, Time Shelter is a truly unforgettable classic from "one of Europe's most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists" (Dave Eggers)"--
More Details
Format
eAudiobook
Edition
Unabridged
Street Date
05/31/2022
Language
English
ISBN
9781666580822
Subjects
Similar Titles From NoveList
NoveList provides detailed suggestions for titles you might like if you enjoyed this book. Suggestions are based on recommendations from librarians and other contributors.
These books have the appeal factors reflective, stylistically complex, and unnamed narrator, and they have the themes "second act" and "confronting mortality"; the genre "literary fiction"; the subjects "memories," "aging," and "loss"; and characters that are "complex characters."
These books have the appeal factors reflective, lyrical, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genre "literary fiction"; and the subject "memories."
These lyrical, stylistically complex literary fiction novels explore the nature of memories and the uncertainties that follow technological advancements. -- CJ Connor
These books have the appeal factors reflective, stylistically complex, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genres "literary fiction" and "psychological fiction"; the subjects "memories," "loss," and "psychic trauma"; and characters that are "introspective characters."
These books have the appeal factors reflective, lyrical, and unnamed narrator, and they have the themes "second act" and "confronting mortality"; the genre "literary fiction"; the subjects "purpose in life" and "aging"; and characters that are "complex characters."
These books have the appeal factors reflective, lyrical, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genre "literary fiction."
These books have the appeal factors reflective, lyrical, and unnamed narrator, and they have the theme "second act"; the genre "literary fiction"; the subjects "memories" and "aging"; and characters that are "complex characters."
In these reflective novels in translation, characters find themselves confronted by the past when a woman returns to the site of childhood trauma (Farewell, Ghosts) and a therapist surrounds Alzheimer's patients with recreations of earlier eras (Time Shelter) -- Michael Shumate
Hesitation wounds - Koppelman, Amy
These books have the appeal factors reflective, lyrical, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genres "literary fiction" and "psychological fiction"; the subjects "memories" and "memory"; and characters that are "complex characters."
These books have the appeal factors reflective, lyrical, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genres "literary fiction" and "psychological fiction."
These books have the appeal factors reflective, stylistically complex, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genre "literary fiction."
Recapturing memory is the intriguing theme of these thought-provoking, stylistically complex literary novels. The Candy House depicts a world where this can be done through technology, while in Time Shelter a psychiatrist hopes to evoke memories by recreating the past. -- Michael Shumate
Similar Authors From NoveList
NoveList provides detailed suggestions for other authors you might want to read if you enjoyed this book. Suggestions are based on recommendations from librarians and other contributors.
These literary fiction authors combine clever prose with zany unconventional plotlines that are thought-provoking, poignant, and reflective. Their wry and witty observations include ruminations on history, society, and geopolitics. Stories often include fictional authors and elements of science fiction. Both have written about time travel and characters with memory issues. -- Alicia Cavitt
These authors' works have the appeal factors reflective, lyrical, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genre "magical realism"; the subject "time"; and characters that are "complex characters."
These authors' works have the appeal factors reflective, stylistically complex, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genres "literary fiction" and "surrealist fiction"; and the subjects "memories," "time," and "magic items."
These authors' works have the appeal factors reflective, lyrical, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genres "literary fiction" and "magical realism"; the subjects "memories," "loneliness," and "psychic trauma"; and characters that are "introspective characters."
These authors' works have the appeal factors sardonic, stylistically complex, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genre "literary fiction"; and the subjects "authors," "loneliness," and "writing."
These authors' works have the appeal factors whimsical, lyrical, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genres "literary fiction" and "surrealist fiction"; and the subject "life."
These authors' works have the appeal factors stylistically complex and unnamed narrator, and they have the subjects "memories," "history," and "time."
These authors' works have the appeal factors reflective, stylistically complex, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genre "experimental fiction"; and the subjects "memories," "perception," and "purpose in life."
These authors' works have the appeal factors stylistically complex and unnamed narrator, and they have the subjects "memories," "authors," and "books and reading."
These authors' works have the appeal factors irreverent, stylistically complex, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genre "literary fiction"; and the subjects "memories," "storytelling," and "loneliness."
These authors' works have the appeal factors melancholy, lyrical, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genre "psychological fiction"; and the subjects "memories," "mythical creatures," and "loss."
These authors' works have the appeal factors reflective, lyrical, and unnamed narrator, and they have the genre "literary fiction"; and the subject "perception."
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gospodinov, G., Rodel, A., & Harding, J. (2022). Time Shelter (Unabridged). Dreamscape Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gospodinov, Georgi, Angela Rodel and Jeff Harding. 2022. Time Shelter. Dreamscape Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gospodinov, Georgi, Angela Rodel and Jeff Harding. Time Shelter Dreamscape Media, 2022.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Gospodinov, G., Rodel, A. and Harding, J. (2022). Time shelter. Unabridged Dreamscape Media.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gospodinov, Georgi, Angela Rodel, and Jeff Harding. Time Shelter Unabridged, Dreamscape Media, 2022.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.
Copy Details
| Collection | Owned | Available | Number of Holds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Libby | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Staff View
Loading Staff View.