Death and the Gardener

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

'Exquisitely tender' Observer

'Vital and valuable' Financial Times

'Crystal clear prose' Olga Tokarczuk

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.

Translated by Angela Rodel

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781399631044
Published: February 2026

Number of pages: 224
Width: 128 mm
Height: 196 mm
Depth: 22 mm

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co