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A single rose / Muriel Barbery ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Snack Barbery Single
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barbery, Muriel, 1969- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Rose seule. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Grief--Fiction.
- Grief.
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Fathers--Death--Fiction.
- Fathers.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Family secrets--Fiction.
- Family secrets.
- Memory--Fiction.
- Memory.
- Love--Fiction.
- Love.
- Kyoto (Japan)--Description and travel--Fiction.
- Kyoto (Japan).
- French fiction--Translations into English.
- French fiction.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 148 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2021.
- Summary:
- Rose has turned 40, but has barely begun to live. When the Japanese father she never knew dies and she finds herself an orphan, she leaves France for Kyoto to hear the reading of his will. In the days before Haru's last wishes are revealed, his former assistant, Paul, takes Rose on a tour of the temples, gardens and eating places of this unfamiliar city. Initially a reluctant tourist and awkward guest in her late father's home, Rose gradually comes to discover Haru's legacy through the itinerary he set for her, finding gifts greater than she had ever imagined. This stunning novel from international bestseller Muriel Barbery is a mesmerizing story of second chances, of beauty born out of grief and roses grown from ashes.
- Notes:
- Original title: Une rose seule
- "Copyright © 2020 by Actes Sud. Translation copyright © 2021 by Europa Editions" -- verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Joan Detz.
- ISBN:
- 1609456777
- 9781609456771
- OCLC:
- 1273206007
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