Public Talk with Georgi Gospodinov and Ostap Slyvynsky

Presentation of the Ukrainian translation of the novel Time Shelter by International Booker Prize winner Georgy Gospodinov. The novel follows an unnamed narrator and Gaustine, a psychiatrist who creates a clinic for people with Alzheimer's disease in Zürich. Each floor of the clinic recreates a decade in intricate detail, aiming to transport patients back in time to revisit their memories. Tasked with collecting past artifacts for the clinic, the narrator travels across countries. Soon, healthy people turn to the clinic to flee their monotonous lives, and the idea becomes widespread when more clinics open. Referendums are held across Europe to decide which past decade each country should live in the future.

Conversation between the author of Time Shelter, Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov, and writer, author of The Dictionary of War, and translator of Ukrainian edition Ostap Slyvynsky

Event in partnership with House of Europe