About the Book: Time Shelter
In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a ‘clinic for the
past’ that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor
reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time.
As Gaustine’s assistant, the unnamed narrator is tasked with collecting the
flotsam and jetsam of the past, from 1960s furniture and 1940s shirt buttons to
scents and even afternoon light. But as the rooms become more convincing, an
increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic as a ‘time shelter’,
hoping to escape from the horrors of our present – a development that results in
an unexpected