我的父亲是一名园丁。现在他是一座花园。 一个男人坐在父亲的床边，彻底而温和地报告，直到末尾一个冬天的早晨。 他的父亲是保加利亚二战后出生的那一代悲惨的吸烟者之一，他们紧紧抓住香烟的通气管。他是一个没有理由的叛逆者，懂得如何以英雄般的自嘲来面对失败。 他在荒芜的村庄庭院里建造的花园，先是拯救了他，又害了他。它至今仍是他鲜活的遗产：牡丹和土豆、玫瑰和樱桃树——以及无尽的故事。 但没有了他，他儿子的过去，以及所有的午后时光，开始悄然崩塌。 因为父辈的终结，就是世界的终结。 这部小说出自国际布克奖得主之手，讲述了一位父亲、一位儿子和一座孤儿花园的故事，故事发生在一个衰落的世界，从古老的伊萨卡岛到如今的索非亚，交织着悲伤的植物、故事的慰藉以及春天头一批郁金香的到来。 My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden. A...(展开全部)

My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden. A man sits by his father's bedside and watches him die. Watches as his past begins to crack, leaving him buried in all its afternoons. The quietly collapsing afternoons of childhood. 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 and a son, about ...(展开全部)

“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 c...(展开全部)

By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The LibraryLydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers faces with the flowers she grows. But it is in a secret place that...(展开全部)

By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The LibraryLydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers faces with the flowers she grows. But it is in a secret place that...(展开全部)

There was once a little gardener and his garden meant everything to him. He worked hard, very hard, but he was just too little (or at least he felt he was). In this beautifully gentle tale Emily Hughes, the celebrated author of Wild, departs from the larger than life Wild-girl of her debut to pursue a little-r than life Gardener, in a tale that teaches us just how important it ...(展开全部)

One day, William discovers that the tree outside his window has been sculpted into a wise owl. In the following days, more topiaries appear, and each one is more beautiful than the last. Soon, William’s gray little town is full of color and life. And though the mysterious night gardener disappears as suddenly as he appeared, William—and his town—are changed forever. With breath...(展开全部)

Author and political commentator Wright (The Wednesday Letters, coauthor with Glenn Beck of The Christmas Sweater) returns with another modern fable that wears its conservative values on its sleeve. Born on the side of the road to a dying teenager, John Bevan grew into happiness and safety on an idyllic Shenandoah Valley orchard, falling in love as a teenager, eventually marryi...(展开全部)

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLE Frightening, heartbreaking and exquisitely calibrated, The Constant Gardener is a profoundly moving story of a man ennobled by his wife’s tragic murder, and a magnificent exploration of the dark side of unbridled capitalism. “Another classic narrative. Nobody writing today manipulates suspense better. Nobody constructs a more tantalizingly complex...(展开全部)

Now a major motion picture from Fernando Meirelles, the Academy Award-nominated director of City of God The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle--young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. Wh...(展开全部)