One Hour of Fervour

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Haru, a successful Japanese art dealer, appreciates beauty, harmony, balance and good sake.

One evening at a party he meets Maud, an enigmatic Frenchwoman, and after a brief intense romance he learns that she is pregnant with his child. But Maud issues him a heartbreaking warning: if he ever tries to see her or the child, she will kill herself.

Quietly devastated, Haru resigns himself to loving his daughter from afar. And Rose grows up on the other side of the world, without ever knowing her father. Is it too late to change things

From international bestseller Muriel Barbery., this is a stunning tale of friendship, secrets and a father's enduring love.

Reviews

'Told in poised and heightened prose that has an almost mythic resonance . . . its a beguiling and unusual tale that sweeps us through the years' - Stephanie Cross

'Exquisite... Readers will be rapt' - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

'A zigzag journey through Harus life, rewinding and fast-forwarding from chapter to chapter, leaving us a bit dizzy but thoroughly delighted . . . Its rare these days for a novel to be devoted to beauty, much less present a philosophy, and thats precisely why Barberys uniquely stand out' - Boston Globe

'Unravels in poetic ways' - i-D, Fiction to be Excited for in 2024

'If Muriel Barberys sentences were stones, her books would be cathedrals . . . A magnificent novel' - Le Figaro Litteraire

Author Bio

Muriel Barbery is the author of four previous novels, including the IMPAC-shortlisted multimillion-copy bestseller The Elegance of the Hedgehog. She has lived in Kyoto, Amsterdam and Paris and now lives in the French countryside.