{"product_id":"9781399631020","title":"Death and the Gardener : From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55732136739192,"sku":"9781399631020","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781399631020.jpg?v=1794270612","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781399631020","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}