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.