Death and the Gardener

<p><b>'Exquisitely tender' <i>Observer</i><br>'Vital and valuable' <i>Financial Times</i><br>'Crystal clear prose' Olga Tokarczuk</b><br><br>Through long winter mornings in Bulgaria, a man sits by the bedside of his elderly father.<br><br>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.<br><br>From the winner of the International Booker Prize comes a novel about a father, a son and an orphaned garden, interweaving the botany of sorrow, the consolations of storytelling and the arrival of the first tulips of spring.<br><br><b>Translated by Angela Rodel</b></p>