A single rose
Barbery, Muriel, 1969-2021
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Rose has just turned forty when she gets a call from a lawyer asking her to come to Kyoto for the reading of her estranged father's will. And so for the first time in her life she finds herself in Japan, where Paul, her father's assistant, is waiting to greet her. As Paul guides Rose along a mysterious itinerary designed by her deceased father, her bitterness and anger are soothed by the stones and the trees in the Zen gardens they move through. During their walks, Rose encounters acquaintances of her father-including a potter and poet, an old lady friend, his housekeeper and chauffeur - whose interactions help her to slowly begin to accept a part of herself that she has never before acknowledged. As the reading of the will gets closer, Rose's father posthumously opens his heart to his daughter, offering her a poignant understanding of his love and a way to accept all she has lost.
Main title:
A single rose / Muriel Barbery ; translated by Alison Anderson.
Author:
Barbery, Muriel, 1969-, authorAnderson, Alison, translator
Imprint:
Brentwood : Europa Editions UK, 2021.
Collation:
160 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781609456771 (hbk)
Dewey class:
843.92F
LC class:
PQ2662.A6523
Language:
EnglishFrench
Subject:
BRN:
2971524