Description: Images on listing, are of this book. PAPERBACK_________________ In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible―short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she’s everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in an upscale neighborhood. But Renée has a secret: she furtively, ferociously devours art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With biting humor, she scrutinizes the lives of the tenants―her inferiors in every way except that of material wealth. Paloma is a twelve-year-old who lives on the fifth floor. Talented and precocious, she’s come to terms with life’s seeming futility and decided to end her own on her thirteenth birthday. Until then, she will continue hiding her extraordinary intelligence behind a mask of mediocrity, acting the part of an average pre-teen high on pop culture, a good but not outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. Paloma and Renée hide their true talents and finest qualities from a world they believe cannot or will not appreciate them. But after a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building, they will begin to recognize each other as kindred souls, in a novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us, and “teaches philosophical lessons by shrewdly exposing rich secret lives hidden beneath conventional exteriors”
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Book Title: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery & Alison Anderson
Book Series: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery & Alison Anderson
Original Language: English
Item Length: 8.3in
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 0.9in
Personalized: No
Features: Collector's Edition
Topic: Literature, General, Literary, DRAMA
Item Width: 7.5in
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Europa Editions, Incorporated
Inscribed: No
Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
Edition: Collector's Edition
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Novel
Literary Movement: Modernism
Era: 2020s
Author: Muriel Barbery
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animals & Pets, World literature & Classics, Fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 12.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
