Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson – One Hour of Fervor (EPUB)
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Title: One Hour of Fervor
Author: Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson
Language: English
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Publisher: Europa Editions
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Author: Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson
Language: English
Publication date: N/A
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: N/A
Subjects: N/A
From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a family story with a difference, a novel about the decisions one makes and the destiny they determine by one of Europe’s most brilliant and stylistically subtle authors.
Haru, a successful Japanese art dealer, loves beauty, harmony, art, balance, intriguing women, sophisticated conversation, and elegance. Months after a brief affair in Japan with a French woman, Maud, he discovers she is pregnant with his child. She warns him, however, that if he ever tries to see her or the child, she will kill herself. Quietly devastated at the thought of never knowing his daughter, who will become a dark presence in an otherwise elegantly orchestrated life, Haru decides he will respect Maud’s wishes. His daughter grows to adulthood without ever knowing him. Is it too late to change things?
This is Haru’s story. In her poetically precise…
Haru, a successful Japanese art dealer, loves beauty, harmony, art, balance, intriguing women, sophisticated conversation, and elegance. Months after a brief affair in Japan with a French woman, Maud, he discovers she is pregnant with his child. She warns him, however, that if he ever tries to see her or the child, she will kill herself. Quietly devastated at the thought of never knowing his daughter, who will become a dark presence in an otherwise elegantly orchestrated life, Haru decides he will respect Maud’s wishes. His daughter grows to adulthood without ever knowing him. Is it too late to change things?
This is Haru’s story. In her poetically precise…
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