{"product_id":"death-and-the-gardener","title":"Death \u0026 the Gardener","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA man sits by his father's bedside and reports radically and gently until a final winter morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis father was one of that generation of tragic smokers born right after the World War II in Bulgaria, who clung to the snorkels of their cigarettes. A rebel without a cause, he knew how to fail with heroic self-deprecation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe garden he created out of a barren village yard first saved him, then killed him It remains his living legacy: peonies and potatoes, roses and cherry trees - and endless stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut without him, his son's past, with all its afternoons, began to quietly crack. Because the end of our fathers is the end of a world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the winner of the International Booker Prize, comes a novel about a father, a son, and an orphaned garden in a fading world that 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Death and the Gardener","offer_id":44707232022725,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/9781399631037.jpg?v=1747972483","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/death-and-the-gardener","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}