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SEED TO DUST
Intimate, moving and full of beauty, Marc's meditative prose fills the heart with an appreciation for the life we live.
Working through a year in the garden of a large country estate, a gardener explores the path that led him there. His days are spent with the magnolias and roses, moths and beetles and the distant lady who has employed him for the past thirty years. A broken biographical telling of the journey, mythology and poetry of an outcast boy who just wanted to be somebody's flower, to an old man who has and is everything that he wants.
Why exist? It is in our nature to exist and to keep doing so whatever we may or may not think about it. We are expressions of nature. Life presents us with unending problems and generations of persistent inequality, but we all carry on. This book is about our existence being a choice. It asks; 'if you are going to choose to keep existing, how do you manage to do that and be happy?'.
It is a love story too. A love story to life itself as an expression of nature but also a relationship between two very different people with contrasting backgrounds, an employer and an employee who come from different worlds and yet have a joint task in creating a garden. Their different worlds are what moves things along in the book and raises those big questions.
Looking at the reviews from the USA for the first book in the series; 'How to Catch Mole', slots the book in with Robert M. Pirsig's 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' and Jack Kerouack's 'On the Road'. I believe that 'Seed to Dust' fits in the same space.
The events in 'Seed to Dust' run parallel to those in 'How to Catch a Mole', the books stand alone though are linked. A final book in this series of three, 'Tales of Spring Rain' is being written at the moment.
On the surface the story seems simple, a tale of nature, grass, flowers, birds and insects, a gardener, his employer, the weather, the changing seasons of the year. The deeper story is that we are all created equal: we are all flowers in natures garden.
'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance meets Vita Sackville-West'.
Why exist? It is in our nature to exist and to keep doing so whatever we may or may not think about it. We are expressions of nature. Life presents us with unending problems and generations of persistent inequality, but we all carry on. This book is about our existence being a choice. It asks; 'if you are going to choose to keep existing, how do you manage to do that and be happy?'.
It is a love story too. A love story to life itself as an expression of nature but also a relationship between two very different people with contrasting backgrounds, an employer and an employee who come from different worlds and yet have a joint task in creating a garden. Their different worlds are what moves things along in the book and raises those big questions.
Looking at the reviews from the USA for the first book in the series; 'How to Catch Mole', slots the book in with Robert M. Pirsig's 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' and Jack Kerouack's 'On the Road'. I believe that 'Seed to Dust' fits in the same space.
The events in 'Seed to Dust' run parallel to those in 'How to Catch a Mole', the books stand alone though are linked. A final book in this series of three, 'Tales of Spring Rain' is being written at the moment.
On the surface the story seems simple, a tale of nature, grass, flowers, birds and insects, a gardener, his employer, the weather, the changing seasons of the year. The deeper story is that we are all created equal: we are all flowers in natures garden.
'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance meets Vita Sackville-West'.
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Published 2021-01-01 by Harvill Secker |