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Georgi Gospodinov & Chris Power: Death and the Gardener

In his latest novel Death and the Gardener Georgi Gospodinov, Bulgaria’s leading writer of fiction and winner of the International Booker Prize (forTime Shelter), reflects on the subject of loss in a tale about a father, a son, and an orphaned garden in a fading world that spans ...  Show more

Sarah Perry & Amy Key: Death of an Ordinary Man

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