Time Shelter [calibre 6.15.1]

Time Shelter [calibre 6.15.1]
Современная русская и зарубежная проза
Язык: английский
Год: 2022
Издатель: Liveright
Переводчик: Angela Rodel
Добавил: Admin 29 Авг 23
Проверил: Admin 29 Авг 23
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**An award-winning international sensation --with a second-act dystopian twist--Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets.**
"At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4,004 years before Christ." But for our narrator, time as he knows it begins when he meets Gaustine, a "vagrant in time" who has distanced his life from contemporary reality by reading old news, wearing tattered old clothes, and haunting the lost avenues of the twentieth century.
In an apricot-colored building in Zurich, surrounded by curiously planted forget-me-nots, Gaustine has opened the first "clinic for the past," an institution that offers an inspired treatment for Alzheimer's...

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