{"product_id":"9781324099321","title":"Death and the Gardener: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/em\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR: \"Lit with remembered warmth, happiness, laughter, and a kind of lightness characteristic of its writer.\" (James Wood, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Epigrammatic and intimate . . . A consolation rather than a provocation, and occasionally darkly funny . . . It might have you mulling your own pithy epitaph.\" -Alexandra Jacobs, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the International Booker Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eTime Shelter\u003c\/em\u003e comes a powerful novel about a father, a son, and the botany of grief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The simplicity and depth of this crystal-clear prose fill me with great admiration.\" -Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA man named Georgi sits patiently by his father's bedside, until a final winter morning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNavigating a season of grief, Georgi parses through the endless stories his father used to tell, and the history of his whole generation-boys born in Bulgaria at the end of the 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 special sanctuary: A lush garden where he would live on in the snowdrop sprouts and the first tulips of spring. But without him, Georgi's past, with all its afternoons, begins to crack.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith striking acuity, Gospodinov explores the quiet rituals of mourning-how we tame sorrow through storytelling and guide a life through to its end. Spanning from ancient Ithaca to present-day Sofia, the novel draws connections between myth and memory, place and emotion. Full of light and unflinching humor, and masterfully translated by Angela Rodel, \u003cem\u003eDeath and the Gardener\u003c\/em\u003e is another profoundly moving work from \"one of Europe's most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists\" (Dave Eggers). \u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43524951179325,"sku":"9781324099321","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781324099321_p0.jpg?v=1787924017","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781324099321","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}