Time Shelter

Time Shelter is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2022 by Georgi Gospodinov

Translation copyright © 2022 by Angela Rodel

Originally published in Bulgarian as Врeмeубeжищe

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“September 1, 1939,” copyright 1940 and © renewed 1968 by W. H. Auden; from Collected Poems by W. H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

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