The Elegance of the Hedgehog Barbery Muriel Paperback
The Elegance of the Hedgehog Barbery Muriel Paperback The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that "explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building" (Publishers…
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog Barbery Muriel Paperback
The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that "explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building" (Publishers Weekly).In an elegant h tel particulier in Paris, Ren e, the concierge, is all but invisible--short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. In short, she's everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in an upscale neighborhood. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo.
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. But Ren e has a secret: she furtively, ferociously devours art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. Talented and precocious, she's come to terms with life's seeming futility and decided to end