Soaked in sake and maples, Muriel Barbery’s One Hour of Fervour offers a cliched view of Japan
- Written by Véronique Duché, A.R. Chisholm Professor of French, The University of Melbourne
Blanscape/shutterstockFrench bestselling author Muriel Barbery’s sixth opus, One Hour of Fervour, is a contemplative novel, a poetic travelogue and a homage to Japan. We follow Haru Ueno, a successful Japanese art dealer, whose life is turned upside down the day his French mistress forbids him from raising his child.
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