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The elegance of the hedgehog / Muriel Barbery ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson. by Barbery, Muriel, 1969- Europa Editions, c2008. Call #: FICTION BAR Subjects Apartment concierges -- Fiction.   Apartment dwellers -- Fiction.   Self-culture -- Fiction.   Intellect -- Fiction.   Paris (France) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781933372600 (trade pbk.) 1933372605 (trade pbk.) Description:  325 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  Translation of: L'élégance du hérisson. "French voices"--P. [4] of cover. Summary:  "We are in an elegant Hotel particulier in the centre of Paris . Renée, the building 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 Renée 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 building's tenants - her inferiors in every way except that of material wealth. Then there's Paloma, a super-smart twelve-year old and the youngest daughter of the Josses, who live on the fifth floor. Talented, precocious, and startlingly lucid, she has come to terms with life's seeming futility and has decided to end her own on the day of her thirteenth birthday. Until then she will continue hiding her extraordinary intelligence behind a mask of mediocrity. Paloma and Renée hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a new tenant arrives, a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu. He befriends Paloma and is able to see through Renée's timeworn disguise to the mysterious event that has haunted her since childhood. This is a moving, witty, and redemptive novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us."--Inside front cover. Genre:  French fiction -- Translations into English. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION BAR Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked out Jul 19, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION BAR Adult Trade Paperback Books Transit Request   Add Copy to MyList

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