Death and the Gardener - Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel (Translator)

Category: General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Bulgaria Bulgarian Literature Death Grief Philosophy

Written by Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel (Translator)
Read by Matt Addis
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

From the International Booker Prize–winning author of Time Shelter comes a powerful novel about a father, a son, and the botany of grief.

“The simplicity and depth of this crystal-clear prose fill me with great admiration.” ―Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

“In this moving novel, Georgi Gospodinov gives a lucid account of his father’s last days and his own lasting grief, enlivened with memories and anecdotes from decades past.” ―David Damrosch, author of Around the World in 80 Books

My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.
A man sits by his father’s bedside and reports radically and gently until a final winter morning.

His 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.

The 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.

But 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.

From 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.

Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
Release date: 07-10-25

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