'An ode to Japan.a magnificent, resonant, finely crafted novel. 'Muriel Barbery sows beauty on every page.' Elle Le Clézio, Anna Galvada, Amélie Nothomb, Hélène Grémillon, as well as Muriel Barbery's earlier novels. She has lived in Kyoto and Amsterdam and now lives in the French countryside.Īlison Anderson's many translations include novels by Nobel Prize winner J-M.G.

She is the author of four previous novels, Gourmet Rhapsody, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, which sold over six million copies worldwide, The Life of Elves and A Strange Country. Muriel Barbery was born in Morocco in 1969. Rose is called to Kyoto for the reading of her estranged father’s will. This stunning fifth novel from international bestseller Muriel Barbery is a mesmerising story of second chances, of beauty born out of grief. A Single Rose written by Muriel Barbery, translated by Alison Anderson From the bestselling author of THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG comes a story about a womans journey to discover the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible. Through her father's itinerary, he opens his heart posthumously to his daughter, and Rose finds love where she least expects it. 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. Her bitterness is soothed by the temples, Zen gardens and teahouses, and by her encounters with her father's friends. Paul, her father's assistant, takes Rose on a mysterious pilgrimage designed by her deceased father. When her Japanese father dies and she finds herself an orphan, she leaves France for Kyoto to hear the reading of his will.

Rose has turned forty, but has barely begun to live.

From the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey, in which she discovers the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible.

A Single Rose by Muriel Barbery