Death and the Gardener

The International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter returns with another enthralling novel about memory, death and imagination, as a son keeps his dying father company, looking back on the years that shaped them.

"My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden."

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The simplicity and depth of this crystal clear prose fill me with great admiration

- Olga Tokarczuk

Moving, raw and elegant. A book that will grow in you for years to come

- Katherine May

Gospodinov gives a lucid account of his father's last days and his own lasting grief, enlivened with memories and anecdotes from decades past... A moving exploration of "the botany of sorrow"

- David Damrosch