After a loss, a year in the country four seasons to transform a garden and a self.In the city the notion of the hours of the day, of the passage of time, is lost. In the countryside that is impossible, our narrator tells us. In this remote house and garden, time is almost palpable it goes by without haste and brings into sharp relief even the tiniest details insects, the sound of the rain, a falling leaf, the smell of damp earth. Past and present are equally weighted and visible here, revealing themselves slowly with every season and turn of the spade.So a year unfolds. A garden takes shape as his connection deepens to this place, becoming a shelter from everyone and everything, perhaps even from himself. We see the ants devouring the chard, we hear the tales his grandmother told, perhaps real, perhaps taken from a movie, and we learn about his great love, Ciro. The humid sheets in the country, the carefully renovated apartment in the city and the painful, inexplicable breakup that prompted him to take refuge in this patch of nowcarefully tended land.

Binding: Paperback;214 pages; Publisher: Charco Press; Classification: FA; Weight: 348 g; Dimensions: 196 x 131 x 19

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