ISBN 9781933372600 | 1933372605 Textbooks - "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery Alison Muriel Barbery Alison Translator Muriel Translator Alison Anderson Muriel Anderson Muriel Anderson Muriel Barbery and Alison Anderson

Authors: Muriel Barbery - Alison - Muriel - Barbery - Alison (Translator) - Muriel; (Translator) Al…
ISBN 10: 1933372605
ISBN 13: 9781933372600
Release: September 2, 2008
Format: Paperback (336 pages)
List Price: $15.00
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Tags: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary,

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Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society's expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renee: passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives. Down in her lodge, apart from weekly visits by her one friend Manuela, Renee lives resigned to her lonely lot with only her cat for company. Meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid the pampered and vacuous future laid out for her, and decides to end her life on her thirteenth birthday. But unknown to them both, the sudden death of one of their privileged neighbours will dramatically alter their lives forever. By turn moving and hilarious, this unusual novel became the top-selling book in France in 2007 with sales of over 900,000 copies to-date.

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog