![]() ![]() She discovers, despite remaining distant, that he kept up with her life by hiring photographers to follow her and send back photos. ![]() Uncertain how she should feel and initially disoriented by the gardens and flowers around her, Rose yearns to know more about her father. Before the reading, Haru’s assistant, Paul, a Belgian widower, drags Rose along to visit a series of temples as part of an itinerary left by Haru. Forty-year-old Parisian botanist Rose travels to Kyoto for the reading of the will of her father, the influential art dealer Haru Ueno. Barbery ( The Elegance of the Hedgehog) returns with a lyrical and opaque story of a French woman grieving her Japanese father, a man she’d never met. ![]()
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