Title
The Elegance of the Hedgehog,Used
Delivery time: 8-12 business days (International)
The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that explores the upstairsdownstairs goingson of a posh Parisian apartment building (Publishers Weekly).In an elegant htel particulier in Paris, Rene, the concierge, is all but invisibleshort, plump, middleaged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, shes everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in an upscale neighborhood. But Rene has a secret: she furtively, ferociously devours art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With biting humor, she scrutinizes the lives of the tenantsher inferiors in every way except that of material wealth.Paloma is a twelveyearold who lives on the fifth floor. Talented and precocious, shes come to terms with lifes 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 preteen high on pop culture, a good but not outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter.Paloma and Rene 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 (Kirkus Reviews).The narrators kinetic minds and engaging voices (in Alison Andersons fluent translation) propel us ahead.The New York Times Book ReviewBarberys sly wit . . . bestows lightness on the most ponderous cogitations.The New Yorker
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