Book Club No 1 (Attempt) and Coffee/Tea

Let’s meet for our first book club - to discuss the book Time shelter by the award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov.

"In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur 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. As Gaustine’s assistant, the unnamed narrator is tasked with collecting the flotsam and jetsam of the past, from Protected content furniture and Protected content shirt buttons to scents and even afternoon light. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic as a 'time shelter'—a development that results in an unexpected conundrum when the past begins to invade the present.