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Gamera is a water tortoise, the bluntest among those living in Agostino Muratori’s succulent garden in Anzio. She looks upon the plants as a brutal deity, as greedy and fighting as her manga-derived name. But this is a book about plants, not animals: palms, agaves, dracaenas, all tended to with passion, all desired, hoped for and greeted.

It is the story of a garden and, of course, of men: Muratori, painter and bonsai artist, tells it through the people and plants who influenced it and helped him in his mission.


Agostino Muratori was born in Rome in 1945. He has always painted and he exposed his figurative works in many important galleries. This is his first book, illustrated by himself.

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