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The simplicity and depth of this crystal clear prose fill me with great admiration -- Olga Tokarczuk Moving, raw and elegant. A book that will grow in you for years to come -- Katherine May Gospodinov gives a lucid account of his father's last days and his own lasting grief, enlivened with memories and anecdotes from decades past . . . A moving exploration of ""the botany of sorrow"" -- David Damrosch Tender, funny, unforgettable. A book so full of love for its place and people. One for all of us who've lost the elder who tended the land and stories we grew up on -- Tanya Shadrick Georgi Gospodinov is one of the most interesting and innovative writers of this century -- Camilla Grudova Gospodinov is a writer of great warmth as well as skill . . . He can draw out fully dimensional characters from the broken details of their fractured memories * Guardian * Gospodinov's books stand somewhere between metafiction, autofiction, essay and thought experiment -- Chris Power * London Review of Books * A wonderful elegy for his father, on par with the one Mallarmé dedicated to his son -- Mercedes Monmany * ABC Cultural, Spain * A profound and surprising reflection on the death of his father -- Andrés Seoane * La Lectura, Spain * One of the most beautiful books ever published about the death of a loved one -- Paula Corroto * El Confidencial, Spain * A lesson about death conveyed with the striking simplicity of the heart's guidance -- Ricardo Menéndez Salmón * La Nueva España, Spain * Georgi Gospodinov, the magnificent Bulgarian writer, has long managed to write great stories contemplating the world from a micro-perspective . . . Now through a garden, which is a kind of biography of the father -- Volker Weidermann * Zeit Online, Germany * With his poetic verve and melancholic irony, Georgi Gospodinov is one of the most original voices in European literature . . . Death and the Gardener, is a memoir, confession and snapshot in one - and his most personal novel to date -- Sandra Kegel * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany *

Georgi Gospodinov is unique in many ways. I've been reading him since the beginning and I know that no one can combine an intriguing concept, wonderful imagination and perfect writing technique like he can -- OLGA TOKARCZUK, author of THE BOOKS OF JACOB and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Georgi Gospodinov is one of the most interesting and innovative writers of this century -- CAMILLA GRUDOVA, author of CHILDREN OF PARADISE Gospodinov is a writer of great warmth as well as skill . . . He can draw out fully dimensional characters from the broken details of their fractured memories * Guardian *

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Georgi Gospodinov was born in Yambol, Bulgaria, in 1968. His works have been translated into twenty-five languages and shortlisted for more than a dozen international prizes. He won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the 2019 Angelus Literature Central Europe Prize and the 2021 Premio Strega Europe. His most recent novel, Time Shelter, won the 2023 International Booker Prize.

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