Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson – A Single Rose (EPUB) EPUB | 1.07 MB | 140 Pages
Title: A Single Rose Author: Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson Language: English Publication date: 2023 Publisher: Europa Editions ISBN: 9781609456788 Subjects: Fiction, Literature, World Fiction, Fiction Subjects, French Fiction, Family & Friendship – Fiction, 21st Century French Fiction, Fathers & Daughters – Fiction
“A magnificent romance redolent of ancient wisdom and rich with melancholy, loss, and love” from the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Le Monde).
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 finally, posthumously, opens his heart…
