She’s resentful that he never contacted her, especially after her mother died a few years earlier. A father she had never met and had never received any communications from him. A father who left her and her mother when she was just a baby. Rose goes to Kyoto Japan for the reading of her fathers’ will. 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.Īs 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.Ī Single Rose by Muriel Barbery is a beautifully written book about love, forgiveness, and family. 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.Īs 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. 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. Genres: Family & Relationships, Fiction, Fiction / Cultural Heritageįrom 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. Purchase Here Buy on Amazon US - Buy on Apple - Buy on Kobo - Buy on Google - Buy at Barnes and Noble

A Single Rose by Muriel Barbery