An hour of revelation
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An hour of revelation
9.99 €
7.99 €
French writer and philosopher Muriel Barberi became a star after the publication of her second novel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006) - it sold more than two million copies in France alone, brought the author a dozen prestigious literary awards, has been translated into more than forty languages, and since then, each book Barberi only confirms her status as the queen of the bestseller. Her new novel, The Hour of Revelation, and her previous novel, Only a Rose, add up to a three-dimensional picture, an open-ended story whose characters live their unquestionably interconnected lives without meeting in time or space. In "Only a Rose," a forty-year-old woman travels to Japan to find roots lost since birth and to understand her estranged late father, who remained offscreen throughout the novel; only Rose was in the frame. In "The Hour of Revelation," she remains behind the scenes and the main character, Rosa's father, Haru Ueno, a collector and dealer in contemporary Japanese art, who was endowed with an unmistakably accurate view of beauty in his youth and driven away from the hinterland to Kyoto. "The Hour of Revelation" is a poetic, heartfelt and profound story of Haru, his friends (artists by profession or at heart), his love for his daughter - love at a distance, delicate and irresistible - and his gradual inevitable self-discovery. In the setting of Japan, where the author lived for several years - a country incomprehensible and infinitely attractive - a quiet and poignant drama unfolds: in it, beauty lurks in the smallest details, melancholy is inseparable from the joy of life, and death and birth are one and the same.
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