Take me back.

Bulgaria's Georgi Gospodinov won the 2023 International Booker Prize with 'Time Shelter', a novel about a memory clinic intended for Alzheimer's patients, but also attracts those keen to escape modern life. Actor Toby Stephens reads a choice passage from a book which hints at Gaustine's plan for "a bomb shelter for the present".

Stephens's narration is smooth and worldly, ideal for a character who wipes the lenses of his glasses and lets out long streams of smoke between sentences. The production design is also spot-on, with retro shades of orange and brown that chime with the 1960s.

Through Stephens, Gaustine notes that a middle-class 1960s looked a lot different from others - his 1960s, for example, took place in Eastern Europe. This adds another wrinkle to Gospodinov's spin on time travel, with a strong visual accompaniment.

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Take me back.

by Andrew MacGregor

Bulgaria's Georgi Gospodinov won the 2023 International Booker Prize with 'Time Shelter', a novel about a memory clinic intended for Alzheimer's patients, but also attracts those keen to escape modern life. Actor Toby Stephens reads a choice passage from a book which hints at Gaustine's plan for "a bomb shelter for the present".

Stephens's narration is smooth and worldly, ideal for a character who wipes the lenses of his glasses and lets out long streams of smoke between sentences. The production design is also spot-on, with retro shades of orange and brown that chime with the 1960s.

Through Stephens, Gaustine notes that a middle-class 1960s looked a lot different from others - his 1960s, for example, took place in Eastern Europe. This adds another wrinkle to Gospodinov's spin on time travel, with a strong visual accompaniment.

Product Category: Live Events

Territory: UK