Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov food there is both comedy and

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Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov food there is both comedy andMy 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