Book Rec of the Day 4/14/2007

“A funny but meaty little book.”—The New York Times

“There was no writer like him.”—Arthur Miller

Karel Capek was one of the leading writers in his native Czechoslovakia. His portrait of weeding and hoeing and digging and all the other toils of the soil that result in so much joy is a classic of the genre. The Gardener’s Year is a memoir that will delight all green thumbs.

THE GARDENER’S YEAR, by Karel Capek (1929; Modern Library, 2002)