A Single Rose (First Edition)

Barbery, Muriel

ISBN 10: 1609456777 / ISBN 13: 9781609456771

Published by Europa Editions, New York, 2021

About this Item

New York, Europa, 2021. First edition. First printing (with no indication of later printings). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on rear cover (not front flap, per Europa custom) ($22.00). Not a book club edition; not price clipped. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. A novel, translated from the French by Alison Anderson, by the author of the best-seller THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG.

Seller Inventory # French-Fiction-B

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Single Rose (First Edition)
• Publisher: Europa Editions, New York
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1609456777
• ISBN 13: 9781609456771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • French Literature

About this title

Synopsis

From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey to discover the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible.  

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.

About the Authors

Muriel Barbery’s novels include is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Europa, 2008), and Gourmet Rhapsody, published by Europa Editions in 2009. She is also the author of The Writer’s Cats, illustrated by Maria Guitart, a short tale about esthetics, inspiration, the writing life, and cats. Barbery has lived in Kyoto, Amsterdam, and Paris, and now lives in the French countryside.

Alison Anderson’s translations for Europa Editions include novels by Sélim Nassib, Amélie Nothomb, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. She is the translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Europa, 2008) and The Life of Elves (Europa, 2016) by Muriel Barbery.