A Single Rose
Paperback Published on: 23/09/2021
Price: £12.99
Bookseller Reviews
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A romantic trip to Kyoto.
Rose travels to Kyoto after learning that her Japanese father whom she has never known was dead. Through the city’s temples, heritage and religion, she slo... READ MORE
Beautiful, botanical and philosophical
Reluctantly in Kyoto after being summoned for the reading of her absent father’s will, Rose is taken on a tour of the city’s tea houses and temples for a f... READ MORE
Evocative, lovely short novel.
This a charming, bitter-sweet short novel. Rose is a young, independent, unhappy woman. Her beloved grand-mother has recently died and so has long ago, her... READ MORE
Panta rei
“A Single Rose” it is a short story about loss, love and life which constantly changes around us.
You can almost feel an atmosphere of passing and flowin... READ MORE
The World is Like a Cherry Tree
Forty year old Rose has never met her Japanese father but on the news of his passing she heads to Kyoto for the reading of his will, arriving skeptical and... READ MORE
Publisher information
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- ISBN: 9781913547110
- Number of pages: 144
- Dimensions: 216 x 137 mm
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
View allA short novel set in KYOTO
Many readers, I imagine, will be familiar with The Elegance of the Hedgehog. A Single Rose is the latest work brought to an English audience by Gallic Book... READ MORE
Elegant, ethereal and beautiful
A Single Rose is very different from The Elegance of the Hedgehog in terms of its setting - Kyōto - its characters - less eccentric, but nonetheless extrao... READ MORE
Liked but didn't love
A Single Rose opens on 40-year-old French botanist Rose wakening in Koyoto. She has travelled to Japan to hear the reading of her father Haru’s will.
R... READ MORE
A short novella set KYOTO
Scandinoir lives! This is Christian Unge’s debut novel, and it is a cracker. He follows in some famous footsteps. The book is largely set in a major hospit... READ MORE
A Rose by any other Name
From the implications of the title to the final full stop this elegant novella almost had me lost for words. I knew nothing of this author when I picked th... READ MORE
Zen and Esoteric Shadows
Reading this novel was a bit of a trial for me. It is much about becoming Japanese. Discovering the Zen of life. Reading Hiku and truly understanding it. M... READ MORE
I loved the setting and visiting the site which were well described
Forty-year-old botanist Rose Ueno has travelled from her home in France to Kyoto, Japan, for the will reading of her later father Haru whom she has never m... READ MORE
Not Barbery’s best work.
2.5★s
“It had stopped raining. She became aware of the pervasive silence, a horizontal silence, pure and incomprehensible— it makes no sense, she thought. ... READ MORE