Description:
A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR: "Lit with remembered warmth, happiness, laughter, and a kind of lightness characteristic of its writer." (James Wood, The New Yorker)
"Epigrammatic and intimate . . . A consolation rather than a provocation, and occasionally darkly funny . . . It might have you mulling your own pithy epitaph." --Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times Book Review
From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter comes a powerful novel about a father, a son, and the botany of grief.
"The simplicity and depth of this crystal-clear prose fill me with great admiration." --Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Brief description: Georgi Gospodinov is the recipient of the International Booker Prize and the Premio Strega, among many other accolades. He lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.