A single rose by muriel barbery6/29/2023 I found this book beautiful yet sad as well. 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. I don’t class it as a novel as it’s only 137 pages long but a lot is packed into the scant pages and I felt like I’d read a much larger tome. A Single Rose by Muriel Barbery is a beautifully written book about love, forgiveness, and family. 23 September 2021, ebook, 137 pages, borrowed from via GET A COPY It is said that in ancient China, during the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a Prince who, every year, would have a field of a thousand peonies planted, and during the first days of summer their petals would ripple in the breeze. This stunning novel from international bestseller Muriel Barbery is a mesmerizing story of second chances of beauty born out of grief and roses grown from ashes. Initially a reluctant tourist and awkward guest in her late father’s home, Rose gradually comes to discover Haru’s legacy through the itinerary he set for her, finding gifts greater than she had ever imagined. In the days before Haru’s last wishes are revealed, his former assistant, Paul, takes Rose on a tour of the temples, gardens and eating places of this unfamiliar city. When the Japanese father she never knew dies and she finds herself an orphan, she leaves France for Kyoto to hear the reading of his will. Rose has turned 40 but has barely begun to live.
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