The Gardener's Year

Karel Capeks delightful book divided chronologically into chapters for eachmonth paints a comically selfeffacing and impressionistic picture of agardeners ups a... » 

Karel Capeks delightful book divided chronologically into chapters for eachmonth paints a comically selfeffacing and impressionistic picture of agardeners ups and downs as he negotiates the unpredictable forces of naturethat govern the life of his garden from January through December. Capekssense of the powerlessness both in society and the natural world was magnifiedby the historical circumstances surrounding him and he uses this sense togreat comic effect in The Gardeners Year.His distinct voice is the foundation of a narrative that conveys a wonderfullyvivid and at times wonderfully absurd sense of the way in which we try tograpple with the seductions blows and boons of the natural world. «