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The elegance of the hedgehog, Muriel Barbery ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson

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The elegance of the hedgehog, Muriel Barbery ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The elegance of the hedgehog

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Muriel Barbery ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson

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Accelerated Reader, UG, 8.1, 15, 169262

Summary

We are in an elegant hotel particulier in the center of Paris. Renee, the building's concierge, is short, ugly, and plump. She has bunions on her feet. She is cantankerous and addicted to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she is everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in a posh Parisian neighborhood. But Renee has a secret : she is a ferocious autodidact who furtively devours art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With biting humor she scrutinizes the lives of the buildings tenants -- her inferiors in every way except that of material wealth

Target audience

adult

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