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The Garden is Overgrown. It’s Time for a Trim.
For seventy years, the man known only as ‘The Gardener’ has worked for the world’s most powerful landscaping firm. But his job isn’t to plant seeds — it’s to decide which ones are allowed to grow.
From the copper mines of Chile to the oil fields of Iran, he has spent a lifetime pruning ‘weeds’: the democratic movements, stubborn leaders, and national identities that threaten the aesthetic of the global market. To him, a nation is not a collection of people, but a patch of land to be managed. If a country grows too tall, it is topped. If its roots extend into ‘private’ soil, it is poisoned.
In this brutal and witty odyssey, Oluwatayo Jide Shoneye takes us behind the curtain of the ‘Hollow State’. Following the Gardener from the shadows of the Cold War to the engineered blackouts of Venezuela in 2026, the novel unveils a chilling secret history where:
- ‘Stability’ is just another word for concrete.
- ‘Humanitarian Aid’ is the fertiliser for extraction.
- ‘Regime Change’ is a calculated liquidation sale where the Gardener is both the auctioneer and the only bidder.
Part secret history, part terrifyingly plausible field guide, The Liberty Gardener is the ledger of a man who paves the world so that shareholders can enjoy the view. From the ‘Plywood Era’ of the 1950s to the ‘Digital Era’ of near-future Caracas, discover how nations are turned into vacancies and why a ‘failed state’ is often the most profitable harvest of all.
If the grass looks greener on the other side, it’s probably because the Gardener has just finished paving it.
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