A Single Rose

Author(s): Muriel Barbery

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From the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey, in which she discovers the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible.


Rose has turned forty, but has barely begun to live. When her Japanese father dies and she finds herself an orphan, she leaves France for Kyoto to hear the reading of his will. Paul, her father's assistant, takes Rose on a mysterious pilgrimage designed by her deceased father. Her bitterness is soothed by the temples, Zen gardens and teahouses, and by her encounters with her father's friends.


As she recognises what she has lost, and as secrets are divulged, Rose learns to accept a part of herself that she has never before acknowledged. Through her father's itinerary, he opens his heart posthumously to his daughter, and Rose finds love where she least expects it.


This stunning fifth novel from international bestseller Muriel Barbery is a mesmerising story of second chances, of beauty born out of grief.


Muriel Barbery is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Gourmet Rhapsody, The Life of Elve sand A Strange Country. She has lived in Kyoto, Amsterdam, and Paris, and now lives in the French countryside. Alison Anderson's many translations include novels by Nobel Prize winner J-M.G. Le Clézio, Anna Galvada, Amélie Nothomb, Hélène Grémillon, as well as Muriel Barbery's earlier novels. 


'Muriel Barbery sows beauty on every page.' Elle '


An ode to Japan...a magnificent, resonant, finely crafted novel.' Le Monde

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General Fields

  • : 9781922458278
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : 0.174
  • : June 2021
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 176
  • : 843.92
  • : 2109
  • : Paperback
  • : Muriel Barbery