Death and the Gardener : From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter

Author: Gospodinov, Georgi

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 26 February 2026 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 224 pages
197 x 130 x 18 | 200g

'Exquisitely tender' Observer'Vital and valuable' Financial Times'Crystal clear prose' Olga TokarczukThrough 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