{"product_id":"death-and-the-gardener-9781399631020b","title":"Death and the Gardener","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eMy father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA man sits by his father's bedside and reports radically and gently until a final winter morning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42824012628048,"sku":"9781399631020B","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781399631020-l.jpg?v=1785894848","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/death-and-the-gardener-9781399631020b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}