In The Gardener and Death, Bulgarian writer Georgy Gospodinov (Iámbolo, 1968) offers an autobiographical story about a son who, day after day, sees how his father, Diño Gospodinov, an ironic and vital man, fades away due to illness. He tells this through an interior monologue. The book, published by Edicions del Periscopi and translated into Catalan by Marc Casals, is recommended by writer Care Santos. "More than a book about death, it's a book about the end of life. In addition, it has the added value that Gospodinov wrote it because he needed to. He not only talks about a man who is gone forever, but also about his landscape and his history. And in doing so, he retains everything," says the writer, who this year published The love that passes (Column), which tells the love story of his parents.

Georgi Gospodinov (Iambolo, 1968) is Bulgaria's most widely read and award-winning contemporary writer. A novelist, poet, and playwright, he has been translated into thirty languages. The Gardener and Death –which comes a year after the Booker Prize forThe shelter of time– proposes an autobiographical story about a son who, day after day, sees his father (Dinyo Gospodinov: an ironic and vital man) fade away due to illness and die. He tells this through an interior monologue of high literary quality that bears the stamp of the author's fragmented narrative style. Anarchic and experimental, unpredictable and dreamlike, metaliterary and absurd, Gospodinov does not write a novel about death, nor about a canonical mourning, but about the pain of witnessing the end of a life. Starting from the personal anecdote—which makes it clear that when it happens through language, it ceases to belong to us and becomes part of the realm of fiction—the author also offers a chronicle of a generation, that of Bulgarian men born at the end of the Second World War.