Death and the Gardener
THE NEW WORKER - By James Wood, 2025
A Bulgarian Novelist Explores What Dies When Your Father Does
Writing about
Georgi Gospodinov is the International Booker Prize winning author of Time Shelter. The novel is published in more than 35 languages. He became internationally known with Natural Novel and The Physics of Sorrow. Gospodinov’s complex narratives are engaged with the topic of memory, empathy and the present anxieties of the world. Death and the Gardener (2024), his new book, is widely translated and reviewed. "This crystal clear prose fills me with great admiration", says about it Olga Tokarczuk.
He’s funny, experimental, anarchic and profound. Political satire is inlaid with a profound philosophy of life and death. He’s a literary magician, a traveller, an astute observer of his home country and of contemporary Europe, of everyday life and global events.
European Literature Network, Rosie Goldsmith
This is Gospodinov at his finest. His playfulness is still there, but it is tempered by a deep vulnerability. What emerges is a sincere, deeply felt novel that creates room for the reader - not just to observe a death, but to reckon with their own memories of fathers, gardens and final days.
Readings Monthly, Nicole Vasilev
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