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This book was just Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and I totally agree 👍
A complex thought-provoking very intelligent piece of work. Gospodinov takes Time and Past and explores them down to the depths. What is past, our relationship to it, what's real what's just a memory, is there a difference. He raises so many smart questions that I was stopping at every passage and just thinking it out. At the same time marvelling at his sharp mind and deep philosophy. First 100 pages are spectacular where I highlighted half of what I was reading.
Gospodinov links past and Time to Alzheimer's and then WW2 and our need to live attached to the past be it happy or traumatic.
The main characters ( or was it just one character?) Is Gaustine. He meets our nameless narrator who is a writer. A lot of the book is their conversations and Gaustine's philosophy. His idea of opening a clinic with rooms dedicated to different decades of history to cure Alzheimer's patients.
Second part is an example of Bulgaria taking it's clock back to the past and reliving it as a whole country.
Third part is the whole of Europe choosing their favourite decades and rewinding the clock of history.
The re enactment of historic events, good or bad . All choreographed to the last detail like a flash mob dance.
I am rambling but I could go on the book is so packed with ideas.
Read it and go for a philosophical ride of your life.