Ausverkauft: Der Literarische Salon mit Georgi Gospodinov

"A breathtaking novel from the past about the present", cheered DIE ZEIT, referring to "Zeitzuflucht". The Bulgarian Georgi Gospodinov, born in Sofia in 1968, won the International Booker Prize with the novel. The book tells the story of a clinic of the future where dementia patients can revel in the rooms of their childhood: Each floor is dedicated to a decade. But suddenly healthy people also want to be admitted to the clinic, and not just healthy people, but entire countries that want to escape the present. The Times has already called Gospodinov a classic and his vision of the future "a nightmare from which Europe must awaken today".

His new novel "The Gardener and Death" will be published in German in the fall, and he is bringing it to Cologne almost hot off the press. What is it about? Gospodinov told us that it is his most personal book and tells of his own father's death: "My father was this atlas that carried tons of the past on his shoulders. The book describes the feeling of how all this past began to shatter and came crashing down on me with a soft crack."