The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die
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Clarissa Pinkola Ests Ph.D. the internationally known poet psychoanalyst and author of the seminal classic Women Who Run With The Wolves (99 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list translated into eighteen languages and a bestseller worldwide) touches our lives anew rendering in the strong and lyrical voice for which she has become known a powerful series of her signature healing stories. These elegantly interlocked tales of loss survival and fierce rebirth center around Dr. Estess uncle a war-ravaged Hungarian peasant farmer and refugee a faithful gardener and a storehouse of stories who was one of the "dancing fools wise old crows grumpy sages and almost saints who made up the old people" in Estss childhood. Told with graceful simplicity deep feeling generous humor and profound optimism The Faithful Gardener is at its captivating core the story of an open-hearted child who listened well to her old-country elders and who grew up to remember to bear witness and as one of the premier storytellers of our times to remind readers and listeners of all ages of "that magisterial life force within all things that strengthens us in times of turmoil or transition that faithful force which can never die."
