‘Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol – or weapons.\nOur contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.\nOur contraband is undetectable by scanners.\nWhat we carry as concealed excess baggage is stories.’\n\nIn this exquisite literary gem, Georgi Gospodinov, winner of the International Booker Prize, invites the reader on a winding journey through his own memories.\n\nHe shows us a childhood under Communism, a particularly Bulgarian variety of melancholy, the freedom and thrills found in reading and writing, and the coming of age of one extraordinary writer.\n\nUltimately, this profound, playful and deeply moving autobiographical text offers resounding proof of the power and importance of storytelling.\n\nTRANSLATED FROM THE BULGARIAN BY KRISTINA KOVACHEVA AND DAN GUNN
Georgi Gospodinov is the author of Natural Novel translated into more than 20 languages, The Physics of Sorrow which won the 2019 European Angelus Award and the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize, and the most recent novel, Time Shelter, winner of the 2021 Premio Strega Europeo. Smuggling poetry into fiction, his style is both poetic and philosophical yet readable, funny, and self-ironic. According to Olga Tokarczuk, Time Shelter is the most exquisite kind of literature.
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