{"product_id":"9781399631020-death-and-the-gardener","title":"Death and the Gardener","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the Booker Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eTime Shelter\u003c\/i\u003e comes a new novel about departing fathers in a departing world, t\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eranslated by Angela Rodel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A man sits by his father's bedside and reports radically and gently until a final winter morning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55143840285046,"sku":"9781399631020","price":15.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33614123_1d1cf7a7-1a94-48ae-8bbf-57e041c89fe4.jpg?v=1744274600","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781399631020-death-and-the-gardener","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}