EAN: 9781399631037

GOSPODINOV GEORGI DEATH AND THE GARDENER

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.

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