A single Rose / Muriel Barbery ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson.
Language: English Original language: French Publication details: Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2021.Description: 148 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781922458278 (paperback)
- Rose seule. English
- Domestic fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Memory -- Fiction
- Love -- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- French -- Japan -- Fiction
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- Botanists -- Fiction
- Fathers -- Death -- Fiction
- Middle-aged women -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Kyoto (Japan) -- Description and travel -- Fiction
- Kyoto (Japan) -- Fiction
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | BAR | Available | 063223 |
Originally published in France under the title Une Rose seule by Actes Sud, 2020.
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.
Translated from the French.
