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Death and the Gardener

By Georgi Gospodinov

Death and the Gardener Contemporary literature

Death and the Gardener

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My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden. A man sits by his father's bedside and reports radically and gently until a final winter morning. His father was one of that generation of tragic smokers born right after the World War II in Bulgaria, who clung to the snorkels of their cigarettes. A rebel without a cause, he knew how to fail with heroic self-deprecation. The garden he created out of a barren village yard first saved him, then killed him It remains his living legacy: peonies and potatoes, roses and cherry trees - and endless stories. But without him, his son's past, with all its afternoons, began to quietly crack. Because the end of our fathers is the end of a world. From the winner of the International Booker Prize, comes a novel about a father, a son, and an orphaned garden in a fading world that spans from ancient Ithaca to present-day Sofia, interweaving the botany of sorrow, the consolations of storytelling and the arrival of the first tulips of spring.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
213
Release Date:
2025-07-10
Publication Date:
2025-07-10
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1399631039
ISBN13:
9781399631037
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
232 g
Height:
134 cm
Width:
215 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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