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Death and the gardener

Gospodinov, Georgi, 1968-2025
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A man sits by his father's bedside and reports radically and gently until a final winter morning. 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. 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. 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.
Main title:
Death and the gardener / Georgi Gospodinov ; translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel.
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Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2025.
Collation:
213 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781399631020 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
891.8134
Language:
EnglishBulgarian
BRN:
8282505
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