A single rose / Muriel Barbery ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barbery, Muriel, 1969- author.

Contributor:

Anderson, Alison, translator.

Standardized Title:

Rose seule. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Fathers--Death--Fiction.

Fathers.

Fathers--Death.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Family secrets--Fiction.

Family secrets.

Memory--Fiction.

Memory.

Love--Fiction.

Love.

Kyoto (Japan)--Fiction.

Kyoto (Japan).

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

148 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2021.

Summary:

"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 to his daughter, offering her a poignant understanding of his love and a way to accept all she has lost-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781609456771

1609456777

OCLC:

1277044101