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Death and the Gardener

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內容簡介 My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.Through long winter mornings, a man sits by the bedside of his elderly father.His father, one of a generation of tragic smokers born at the end of the Second World War in Bulgaria, who clung to the snorkels of their cigarettes.His father, who created and le­ behind a garden, blooming from a barren village yard: peonies and potatoes, roses and cherry trees - and endless stories.His father, without whom the man's past begins to quietly crack, leaving him buried in all the a­fternoons of childhood. Because the end of our fathers is the end of a world.From the winner of the International Booker Prize comes a novel about a father, a son and an orphaned garden. Set in a fading world, it 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.

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作者介紹 Georgi GospodinovGeorgi Gospodinov is the author of Natural Novel translated into more than 20 languages, The Physics of Sorrow which won the 2019 European Angelus Award and the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize, and the most recent novel, Time Shelter, winner of the 2021 Premio Strega Europeo. Smuggling poetry into fiction, his style is both poetic and philosophical yet readable, funny, and self-ironic. According to Olga Tokarczuk, Time Shelter is the most exquisite kind of literature.

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