Death and the Gardener - Georgi Gospodinov have democratised the short story

have democratised the short story

will be met with death

At the age of 21

Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day

Death and the Gardener - Georgi Gospodinov have democratised the short storyThrough 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,