Death and the Gardener

Through long winter mornings in Bulgaria, a man sits by the bedside of his elderly father.

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.

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.

'Exquisitely tender' 
- Observer

'Vital and valuable'
- Financial Times

'Crystal clear prose'
- Olga Tokarczuk