time shelter: winner of the international booker prize 2023

Time Shelter: Winner Of The International Booker Prize 2023

A brilliant, satirical skewering of our obsession with nostalgia and the past, written by a master of European literature.

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023

'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... A writer of great warmth as well as skill' GUARDIAN 'In equal measure playful and profound. I loved it' CLAIRE MESSUD, author of The Woman Upstairs

'A genrebusting novel of ideas... And accident, in combination with the book's own merits, may just have created a classic' THE TIMES

'A powerful and brilliant novel: clear-sighted, foreboding, enigmatic' SANDRO VERONESI, author of The Hummingbird

'Touching and intelligent' NEW YORK TIMES

In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur 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.