At London Book Fair last week it was announced that Georgi Gospodinov’s TIME SHELTER has made the shortlist for the very, very illustrious International Booker Prize. The judges hailed it as: ‘An inventive, subversive and morbidly humorous novel about national identities and the seductive dangers of memory and nostalgia.’ They said that, ‘it compels us to question our concepts of identity: not just national, individual, societal, but also historical and temporal. How much do we res...
