Death and the Gardener : From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov Paperback / softback

Death and the Gardener : From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov Paperback / softbackExquisitely tender' Observer'Vital and valuable' Financial Times'Crystal clear prose' Olga TokarczukThrough long winter mornings in Bulgaria, a man sits by the bedside of his elderly father. His father, who created and left behind a garden, blooming from a barren village yard: peonies and potatoes, roses and cherry trees. His father, without whom the man begins to quietly crack. Because the end of our fathers is the end of a world. From the winner of

To open the way

was striking

One-Pan Pesto Gnocchi

and ancestral vegetables that are not only a feast for the eyes but also nutritional powerhouses

With poems such as 'Surrounded by Treasure'

crystal clear

'I'm going to take you behind the scenes of my television home at ITV

and printer-reviving traditional techniques to create modern expressions of beauty

anticonformists

ancient forces

as well as the earthly

I finished this book in one sitting' Reader review