Used book – A Rose Alone, Muriel Barbery

Upon the death of a father she never knew, Rose arrives in Japan for the first time to hear his will.

Welcomed in Kyoto, she is taken to the home of the man who, she is told, was a contemporary art dealer. In this sudden proximity to a confiscated past, the young woman initially feels bitterness and anger. But Kyoto tames her and, each day, guided by Paul, her father's assistant, she is invited to discover an itinerary conceived by the deceased, dotted with temples and gardens—a strange cartography of emotions and encounters that will lead her to the depths of herself.

This book tells of the metamorphosis of a woman placed at the heart of her ancestral landscape, on a path that carries her toward that unique place where true love stories sometimes unfold.