Death And The Gardener
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Product Information
| ISBN | 9781399631020 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Georgi Gospodinov |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Group |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.336 |
| Publishing Date | 10/07/2025 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €26.65 |
| Tax | €1.60 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €28.25 |
| Availability | 10 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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.