| ISBN |
9781922458278 (paperback) |
| Name |
Barbery, Muriel author. |
| Uniform title |
Rose seule. English |
| Title |
A single Rose / Muriel Barbery ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson. |
| Published |
Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2021. |
| ©2021 |
| Description |
148 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Notes |
Originally published in France under the title Une Rose seule by Actes Sud, 2020. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Language note |
Translated from the French. |
| Subjects |
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction |
| Middle-aged women -- Fiction |
| French -- Japan -- Fiction |
| Inheritance and succession -- Fiction |
| Botanists -- Fiction |
| Fathers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Family secrets -- Fiction |
| Kyoto (Japan) -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Domestic fiction |
| Other Names |
Anderson, Alison translator. |
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