{"product_id":"9781399631037","title":"Death and the Gardener","description":"Author: Georgi Gospodinov\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781399631037\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Orion\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 08 Jul 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA man sits by his father's bedside and reports radically and gently until a final winter morning.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated by Angela Rodel\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46449885675678,"sku":"ADS-9781399631037","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781399631037.jpg?v=1769572826","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781399631037","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}