A review by volkerball86nox
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov

5.0

Five stars are not enough for this, instead this gas balloon of memory that has sent me to the seventh heaven of nostalgia from where I am now viewing the entire history of my own country, deserves more recognition and that more people read it. My unfulfilled heart and quality-literature-starved brain has become delightfully and, at the same time, sadly, overwhelmed with this second-hand memory of a country that one can not return to, a childhood one cannot access, and a life that one is fast-forgetting. And what if one tries to return to that forcefully created past? Something that a lot of countries are being forced to experience in different ways. One experiences an utter disaster of the senses and memories, because what one remembers as a beautiful and safe past soon becomes a horrific and destructive present-disguised-as past. I am in love with this novel, I hope to reminisce reading it in the somewhat overwhelming 30th year of my life, when things were as chaotic and memorable as the events in this novel. Also, I am more confident in my supposedly delusional thoughts now that I know I am not the only one thinking this way. Go Gospodinov!