Nostalgia, memory loss and the European Union walk into a bar… Every section of this book feeds into the next like those nights where you wake up six times and experience the same dream, mutated sixfold. And just like the day after the dream, this book hasn’t ended for me, since I think fondly of it long after completion, sewing the remembered bits together as best I can into my own narrative (it’s minty mental mouthwash and lord knows I need it).
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, (List Price: $27, Liveright, 9781324090953, May 2022)
Reviewed by Ian McCord, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia