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Death and the Gardener

SKU: 9781399631037
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  • Author:
    Georgi Gospodinov
  • ISBN:
    9781399631037
  • Publication Date:
    July 2025
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    224
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Orion Publishing
  • Country of Publication:
    Australia
Death and the Gardener
Death and the Gardener

Death and the Gardener

SKU: 9781399631037
Regular price $37.99
Unit price
per
  • Author:
    Georgi Gospodinov
  • ISBN:
    9781399631037
  • Publication Date:
    July 2025
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    224
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Orion Publishing
  • Country of Publication:
    Australia

Description

My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.

Through long winter mornings, a man sits by the bedside of his elderly father.

His father, one of a generation of tragic smokers born at the end of the Second World War in Bulgaria, who clung to the snorkels of their cigarettes.

His father, who created and le behind a garden, blooming from a barren village yard: peonies and potatoes, roses and cherry trees - and endless stories.

His father, without whom the man's past begins to quietly crack, leaving him buried in all the a fternoons of childhood. 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. Set in a fading world, it 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.

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  • My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.

    Through long winter mornings, a man sits by the bedside of his elderly father.

    His father, one of a generation of tragic smokers born at the end of the Second World War in Bulgaria, who clung to the snorkels of their cigarettes.

    His father, who created and le behind a garden, blooming from a barren village yard: peonies and potatoes, roses and cherry trees - and endless stories.

    His father, without whom the man's past begins to quietly crack, leaving him buried in all the a fternoons of childhood. 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. Set in a fading world, it 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.

My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.

Through long winter mornings, a man sits by the bedside of his elderly father.

His father, one of a generation of tragic smokers born at the end of the Second World War in Bulgaria, who clung to the snorkels of their cigarettes.

His father, who created and le behind a garden, blooming from a barren village yard: peonies and potatoes, roses and cherry trees - and endless stories.

His father, without whom the man's past begins to quietly crack, leaving him buried in all the a fternoons of childhood. 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. Set in a fading world, it 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.