{"product_id":"9781399631020","title":"Death and the Gardener","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Gospodinov, Georgi \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 10\/07\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 224 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781399631020,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A man sits by his father's bedside and reports radically and gently until a final winter morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55492844290421,"sku":"9781399631020","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781399631020_72ec0e85-76b5-4cac-871c-3f2d3157cadb.jpg?v=1759675567","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781399631020","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}