{"product_id":"death-and-the-gardener-9781399631020","title":"Death and the Gardener","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Georgi Gospodinov\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orion Publishing Co\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMy father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45848101421207,"sku":"9781399631020","price":1471.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781399631020.webp?v=1768602912","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/death-and-the-gardener-9781399631020","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}