Muriel Barbery – The Elegance of the Hedgehog (EPUB) EPUB | 1.44 MB | 325 Pages
Title: The Elegance of the Hedgehog Author: Muriel Barbery Language: English Publication date: 2019 Publisher: Europa Editions ISBN: 9781609450137 Subjects: Awards, Fiction, Literature, World Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Peoples & Cultures – Fiction, Literary Fiction, French Fiction, Settings & Atmosphere – Fiction, European Peoples & Cultures – Fiction & Literature, Women’s Fiction, 21st Century French Fiction, Apartment Houses – Fiction, French People – Fiction, Women – Self Realization, 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist, Christian Science Monitor’s Best Novels of 2008, Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2008
The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that “explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building” (Publishers Weekly).
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…
