Georgi Gospodinovโs "Death and the Gardener" is a profound narrative that explores the fragile relationship humans maintain with life, memory, death and themselves, all sparked by the absence of a father. Opening with the sentence, โMy father was a gardener. Now heโs a garden,โ the novel presents both a deeply personal story of mourning and a reflection on universal human experiences.
In this book, fatherhood is not depicted with exaggerated sentimentality. Instead, it emerges through the subtle, weighty gestures of everyday life. Gospodinovโs father is a quiet, hardworking and practical man, one who expresses love through actions rather than words, much like many fathers who grew up under social
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