Death and the Gardener: My father was a gardener: Now he is a garden - paperbacks
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From the author of the Booker Prize-winning Time Shelter comes a new novel about departing fathers in a departing world.
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, clung to the snorkels of their cigarettes. His father, who created and left behind a garden, blooming from a barren village yard: peonies, potatoes, roses, cherry trees - and endless stories. Without him, the man's past quietly cracks, leaving him buried in all the afternoons of childhood. Because the end of our fathers is the end of a world.
Navigating a season of grief, Georgi parses through the endless stories his father used to tell, and the history of his generation - boys born in Bulgaria at the end of World War II, grown into men often absent, clinging to the snorkel of a cigarette, swimming in other waters and clouds. Out of a barren village yard, Georgi's father created a sanctuary: a lush garden where he would live on in the snowdrop sprouts and the first tulips of spring. Without him, Georgi's past, with all its afternoons, begins to crack.
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.
Death and the Gardener is a deeply moving exploration of loss, memory, and the enduring bond between a father and son. Through intimate recollections, symbolic gardens, and reflections on the passage of time, the novel examines the quiet rituals of mourning and the ways stories sustain life.
Georgi Gospodinov’s novel invites readers to immerse themselves in a world where the personal and historical intertwine. The book traces the final days of a father, capturing the subtleties of grief, legacy, and familial love. With lyrical prose, Gospodinov transforms ordinary moments into profound reflections on mortality and the human experience. By connecting myth, memory, and nature, the author creates a tapestry where childhood recollections, garden imagery, and the physical spaces of Bulgaria serve as vessels for understanding life, death, and the emotional landscapes we inhabit. Readers will find themselves contemplating the impermanence of life while appreciating the resilience of memory, the comfort of ritual, and the quiet beauty of ordinary days marked by love and loss.
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Автор:Georgi Gospodinov
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Издателство:Orion
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ISBN:9781399631037
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Година:2025
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Страници:216
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Корици:меки
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Състояние:отлично
