"At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4,004 years before Christ." But for our narrator, time as he knows it begins when he meets Gaustine, a "vagrant in time" who has distanced his life from contemporary...
The International Booker Prize was presented in London on May 23. The prestigious award honors the finest works of translated fiction from around the globe with the goal of spotlighting a diversity of international literature. Read on to learn about the thirteen nominated books, the shortlisted titles, and the winner.