A Single Rose

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Product Details
Price
$22.00  $20.46
Publisher
Europa Editions
Publish Date
Pages
160
Dimensions
5.28 X 8.35 X 0.94 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781609456771

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About the Author

Muriel Barbery's novels include the New York Times bestseller, The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Europa, 2008), Gourmet Rhapsody (Europa, 2009), and A Single Rose (Europa, 2021). She is also the author of The Writer's Cats, illustrated by Maria Guitart. Barbery has lived in Kyoto, Amsterdam, and Paris, and now lives in the French countryside.

Alison Anderson spent many years in California; she now lives in a Swiss village and works as a literary translator. Her translations include The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery and works by Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio. She has also written two novels and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Translation Fellowship.

Reviews

"Barbery brings her usual lush descriptions to this slim novel, weaving traditional Japanese stories through the narrative. [A] luminous meditation on grief."--Booklist


"With elegant and careful prose, [Barbery] offers descriptions of Kyoto and Japanese culture that transcend the genre of a travelogue. This novel will appeal to readers who long for happy endings and escape."--Library Journal


"This novel offers the pleasures of a poetic travelogue and an homage to a place and culture.
A Single Rose is a modern fairy tale... an evocative, transplanted retelling of the tale of a sleeping beauty."--New York Journal of Books


"This plaintive novel impresses with its smoothness."--Publishers Weekly


"It is a joy to take a stroll with Rose and Paul while savoring the beauty of camellias, peonies and wild irises, in a world of muted, delicate colors and to the sound of their elegant words."--Ouest-France


"Though A Single Rose is centered around vulnerable, tenacious Rose, its core is found in its Japanese setting. The novel balances lush, cultivated gardens and weighted symbolism with mischievous foxes, matcha, sliced eel, and sushi, all forming "one happy chaos" and a fascinating maze of emotional release."--Foreword Reviews


"A moving and successful novel. Richly perfumed, delicate, light, and inspired."--L'OBS


"In this story Rose explores an inner self that illuminates her darkness and leads her to overcome her sadness."--L'orient litteraire


"At once a journey through a secret landscape and a poetic transposition of the enigma of love."--Actualitte