Death and the Gardener
Градинарят и смъртта · Gradinaryat i smartta
Georgi Gospodinov (Георги Господинов, born 1968)
Translated by Angela Rodel
English editions
In EnglishDeath and the Gardener
Liveright · United States · 8 September 2026 · Paperback · 224 pages
Death and the Gardener
Liveright · United States · 7 October 2025 · Hardcover · 224 pages
Death and the Gardener
Weidenfeld & Nicolson · United Kingdom · 26 February 2026 · Paperback
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A son tells of his father, who was a gardener and is now a garden, and of their last dawn together. The father, a tragic smoker often absent and lost in other waters, carried tons of the past on his shoulders and never stopped telling it, a Scheherazade of the family. As the father goes, the past begins to crack and fall on the son with all its afternoons, in a book about fathers leaving a vanishing world, and about a life that fades rather than about death.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 213 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Bulgaria
- First published
- 2024 by Janet 45
- Author's age
- 56 when first published
- ISBN
9786191869121 (original)
9781324097297 (Liveright, United States)
9781399631044 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, United Kingdom)
9781324099321 (Liveright, United States)