
Death and the Gardener : From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter
by Georgi Gospodinov
Title:
Death and the Gardener : From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter
Author:
Georgi Gospodinov
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
224 pages
Publisher:
Hachette UK Distribution
ISBN-13:
9781399631020
EAN:
9781399631020
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
456
Dimensions (mm):
223 x 145 x 23
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
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.















