The Garden Against Time Baseret på en sand historie

Baseret på en sand historie er en medrivende thriller

vid og præcision vender Mann det borgerlige samfunds hykleri på vrangen og udstiller dets forlorenhed

hvor komplekse kommunikationssystemer

man typisk finder på de danske strande: sandsten

Gorgeously translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith

The Garden Against Time Baseret på en sand historieWhen Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants, the work drew them into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. Moving between the real and the imagined, from Miltons Paradise Lost to a wartime sanctuary in Italy, to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth. But the