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Publisher: Hachette Australia
Edition: 1
ISBN:
9781399631037
Publication Date: 2025
Bind Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Death and the Gardener
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From the author of the Booker Prize-winning Time Shelter comes a new novel about departing fathers in a departing world My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.A man sits by his father's bedside and watches him die.Watches as his past begins to crack, leaving him buried in all its afternoons. The quietly collapsing 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 and a son, about the last month of a man's life, and the stories that make up a life. Georgi Gospodinov was born in Yambol, Bulgaria, in 1968. His works have been translated into twenty-five languages and shortlisted for more than a dozen international prizes. He won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the 2019 Angelus Literature Central Europe Prize and the 2021 Premio Strega Europe. His most recent novel, Time Shelter, won the 2023 International Booker Prize. From the author of the Booker Prize-winning Time Shelter comes a new novel about departing fathers in a departing world