Bøger af Grian

This book tells us about a very special garden: the garden of Life. It is the gateway to Peace and Love, both inside and outside. In it, a very special gardener dialogues with the plants and trees, with the gnomes, the sylphs and the fairies, with the undines and the elves. In it, we all discover that just as the bird does not understand the mechanism of flight and yet flies because it is in its nature to fly, so it is in the nature of man to attain love. In the tradition of The Little Prince or Juan Salvador Gaviota, this is a book written from the heart that speaks directly to the heart. Simple in its reading, but, at the same time, of great depth, The Gardener has been able to reach the soul of people of all ages, transmitting with simple metaphors drawn from nature those secrets that can help us to achieve happiness. Numerous readers have described it as a "bedside" or "bedside table" book, and its calm and harmonious atmosphere provokes a manifest sense of peace in those who read it. The first instalment of a trilogy entitled The Garden Cycle, The Gardener was published in 1996 without any publicity support, but thanks to the enthusiasm of its readers it has been passed on by word of mouth and has become a worldwide bestseller, now translated into English, German, Italian, Chinese, Korean and Catalan.

The second book in the trilogy entitled The Cycle of the Garden, The Wellspring of Glances is the sequel - but not the second part - of The Gardener. Already in the prologue, Grian warns that it did not seem appropriate to make a second part of his international bestseller, but that, beyond the character of the gardener, the garden continued to exist as a place of peace and learning, as a setting for teachings that have their origin in Life itself, whose most beautiful expression is the garden. Thus, without a gardener but with a garden, an apprentice and new characters, The Wellspring of Glances takes us back to the wisdom of simplicity, to the reading of the great book of the wise: nature. But this time without the masterly discourse of the gardener, but through the reflections and images with which the narration envelops us, through the tenderness, humor, peace and surprise that run through the paths of the garden. This is a book for those who feel faint in the face of the harshness of the world, a book where the reader can lean out and, in the mirror of the spring, contemplate once again the primordial purity of his or her eyes. The Wellspring of Glances, Grian's most mature work, both creatively and spiritually, is destined to follow in the footsteps of the first book of The Garden Cycle.

"Many years ago, a stranger came to a village looking for a spacious land where he could create a garden; and when he did, he offered the peace and beauty of its paths and corners not only to human beings who would visit it, but also to all beings who wanted to live in that garden. After a few years, the gardener left the place, leaving his apprentice in charge of that reflection of paradise. But one day, after more than twenty years, the gardener appeared again on the garden paths. New people and beings now frequented the place, along with some old acquaintances of his. But the world was changing rapidly, and the creatures of nature felt that perhaps the old gardener might be someone they could trust. Return to the Garden is the third book in The Garden Cycle, a trilogy of short fiction"--