Death and the Gardener

Death and the Gardener

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Death and the Gardener
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Death and the Gardener

Death and the Gardener

Authors: Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel

Publisher: Hachette

ISBN: 9781399631037
Rs. 699.00
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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.

 


 

Tagged with: Angela Rodel / Bulgaria / fiction / Georgi Gospodinov / international / translation

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