The Faithful Gardener - by Clarissa Pin Estes (Hardcover)

About the Book

Through her startling rendering of an old tale, which transforms it from one that hurts the heart to one that helps to mend it, the internationally recognized author of Women Who Run with the Wolves tells about that most precious thing in all of life: the essence that can never die. Illustrations.

Book Synopsis

A series of beautifully rendered and interlocking tales that tell of loss, survival, and fierce rebirth.

From the Back Cover

These elegantly interlocked tales of loss, survival, and fierce rebirth center around Dr. Estes's uncle, a war-ravaged Hungarian peasant farmer and refugee, a faithful gardener, and a storehouse of stories who was one of the "dancing fools, wise old crows, grumpy sages, and 'almost saints' who made up the old people" in Estes's childhood. Told with graceful simplicity, deep feeling, generous humor, and profound optimism, The Faithful Gardener is, at its captivating core, the story of an open-hearted child who listened well to her old-country elders and who grew up to remember, to bear witness, and, as one of the premier storytellers of our times, to remind readers and listeners of all ages of "that magisterial life force within all things that strengthens us in times of turmoil or transition, that faithful force which can never die".