{"product_id":"134657","title":"The Gardener's Twelve Months ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/3jYC5RDrsID4gD9A3SEkeMkY6KDCMh.png?v=1765040318\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e The Gardener's Twelve Months \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/105625333\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eIn the gap between the two world wars, in a world that is crumbling without a trace,\u003cbr\u003e A profound yet lighthearted twelve-month record of the garden of Karel Capek, a writer and gardener.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “It’s October, nature is now lying down and sleeping.\u003cbr\u003e \"People say.\u003cbr\u003e But the gardener knows the truth.\u003cbr\u003e So I would say October is as good a month as April.\u003cbr\u003e You should know that October is the first month of spring.\u003cbr\u003e It is the month when things germinate and sprout from the ground.\u003cbr\u003e It is the month of hidden growth and swelling new shoots.\u003cbr\u003e If you dig just a little bit on the surface of the earth, you can find new shoots that have already taken shape.\u003cbr\u003e There are plump, tender sprouts and struggling roots the size of a thumb.\u003cbr\u003e There's no way around it, spring is here and gardeners need to get out there and plant. \u003cbr\u003e─ From \"The Gardener's October\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Have you ever witnessed the moment a flower bud bursts open, or a seed pokes its head through the soil? Like the foreign language we laboriously study, like children who crawled yesterday and now run and play, plants often sprout when we're not looking.\u003cbr\u003e No essay has depicted the mystery of the commonplace, and therefore eternal, growth of plants so poignantly and comically as The Gardener's Twelve Months.\u003cbr\u003e Karel Čapek has combined his characteristic satire and humor with his profound love of plants and his own struggles as an amateur gardener to create a wonderful collection of prose.\u003cbr\u003e This is an irresistible collection of 'maniacal' prose that will move anyone, even those who are not a gardener or plant enthusiast, to its warm and harmless passion. \u003cbr\u003eIt is a book filled with such pure affection that it is hard to believe it was written in a harsh and terrifying time when the value of life was at stake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unlike his contemporary, Franz Kafka, who used the same language, Capek confesses that he finds meaning in the volatility of the ordinary lives of ordinary people, 'despite' the absurdity of war and saturation.\u003cbr\u003e Capek shows us through the diligent changing of plants over twelve months and the trial and error of ordinary people adapting to life's finiteness and limitations—the fleeting, the powerless, the trampled, the bleeding, the all-too-brief, the foolish—that these limitations make life, including humans, fascinating and mysterious. \u003cbr\u003eThe translator's choice to translate the title, which had been translated into various terms such as 'gardener', 'horticulturalist', and 'gardener', as 'gardener' to focus on all ordinary people who care for companion plants, was inevitable.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e How to Create a Simple Garden\u003cbr\u003e How to Become a Garden Enthusiast\u003cbr\u003e January for Gardeners\u003cbr\u003e seeds\u003cbr\u003e February for Gardeners\u003cbr\u003e The Art of Gardening\u003cbr\u003e March for Gardeners\u003cbr\u003e New shoots\u003cbr\u003e April for Gardeners\u003cbr\u003e day off\u003cbr\u003e May for Gardeners\u003cbr\u003e Rain of Grace\u003cbr\u003e June of the Gardener\u003cbr\u003e Growing vegetables in the garden\u003cbr\u003e July for Gardeners\u003cbr\u003e Botany Chapter\u003cbr\u003e August for Gardeners\u003cbr\u003e On Cactus Worship\u003cbr\u003e September for Gardeners\u003cbr\u003e soil\u003cbr\u003e The Gardener's October\u003cbr\u003e Autumn's\u003cbr\u003e beauty\u003cbr\u003e November for Gardeners\u003cbr\u003e preparation  \u003cbr\u003eDecember for Gardeners\u003cbr\u003e Gardening Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Translator's Note\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eIn the early 20th century, amidst the ravages of fascism and war, a world crumbling helplessly\u003cbr\u003e The Czech national writer Karel Capek, who never gave up hope for words and literature,\u003cbr\u003e A deep blue companionship with harmless and delicate creatures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Karel Capek is well known as the creator of the famous word 'robot' and the godfather of science fiction literature.\u003cbr\u003e But Čapek was a genre-blind novelist, journalist, philosopher, playwright, essayist, translator, illustrator, biographer, fairy tale writer, and actively involved in real-world politics, and above all, he had little interest in fantasy itself.\u003cbr\u003e The whimsical imaginations have always been nothing more than the forms taken by chance at the time of concrete concerns and reflections on the realities of humanity and the world. \u003cbr\u003eAlthough the surface may be different, the underlying nature of the work has always remained unchanged.\u003cbr\u003e Affection for all living things, harmless and delicate creatures, that exist in reality rather than in fantasy, is one of the themes of Capek's world.\u003cbr\u003e Two prose collections that stand out among others for their love and responsibility for fragile yet strong and enduring life are being introduced at the end of 2021.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Capek, a common young European intellectual who had enjoyed a peaceful and ordinary adolescence, faces two catastrophes on a global and personal level.\u003cbr\u003e In 1914, World War I broke out, and around this time the young Čapek was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, leaving him virtually disabled for the rest of his life.\u003cbr\u003e But after all the disaster and suffering, a glimmer of hope remained.\u003cbr\u003e World War I marked the end of prosperous Europe, but it also gave the Czech Republic one of the first liberal democratic regimes in history. \u003cbr\u003ePhysical pain taught me the value of small, everyday things and compassion for people in pain.\u003cbr\u003e Capek, a strong man who knows how to water and nurture this faint hope, begins to blossom as a writer and as a human being.\u003cbr\u003e Above all, the two volumes of prose collections, “I Raised a Dog and a Cat Too” and “The Twelve Books of a Gardener,” which contain aspects of Čapek’s life as a “living being” who faithfully lived each day, will provide a reading experience that is absorbed not only with the eyes but also with the skin and heart. 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