Nedko Solakov’s wide-ranging and exuberant work, which in formal terms is hard to keep in bounds, is a singular assault on the desire for perfection, finality, and clarity. Starting from his studies o
'The most exquisite kind of literature... I've put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that can never be fully exhausted - books that demand to be revisited every now and then. 'Olga Tokarczuk, author of The Books of Jacob and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'In equal measure playful and profound, Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter renders the philosophical mesmerizing, and the everyday extraordinary.I loved it'Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs'Gospodinov is one of Europe's most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists, and this his most expansive, soulful and mind-bending book'Dave Eggers, author of The Circle'A powerful and brilliant novel: clear-sighted, foreboding, enigmatic. A novel in which the future gives way like a rotten beam and the past rushes in like a flood'Sandro Veronesi, author of The Hummingbird 'A trickster at heart, and often very funny... Gospodinov is one of the leading writers in Europe: every book is an event'Garth
Resembling the complex and fragmented way a fly's eye works, Natural Novel contains a myriad of storylines, reflections, and digressions, including a history of toilets and the graffiti found there, a
"Georgi Gospodinov wants to blow your mind?or maybe just provide the ultimate bathroom reader. . . . The formal playfulness suggests Kundera with A.D.D. and potty jokes."?Ed Park, The Village VoiceA f
