In an imaginative leap, 'Time Shelter' follows its unnamed narrator's journey through a world obsessed with the past. Gaustine, a man disconnected from the present, founds the first 'clinic for the past' in Zurich, offering patients with Alzheimer's a novel treatment: to inhabit recreated past decades, aiming to trigger their fading memories. Assisting Gaustine, the narrator curates relics of bygone days, from 1960s decor to the ephemeral wisps of afternoon light, crafting a sensory time capsule for the clientele. As the illusion grows increasingly tangible, the clinic attracts the disillusioned longing for refuge in the yesteryears. Yet, this escape to the past intensifies as the boundaries between then and now blur, culminating in an existential crisis that threatens to halt time's march. Georgi Gospodinov's 'Time Shelter' is a satirical and kaleidoscopic tale that dances through a maze of vignettes, echoing Italo Calvino and Franz Kafka, to meditate on the century's tragedies, including the present, evoking a haunting narrative that lingers long after the tale concludes.