Elï¿½gance du Hï¿½risson

Name: Elï¿½gance du Hï¿½risson
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ISBN: 9781933372600

ISBN-10: 1933372605

ISBN-13: 9781933372600

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Authors: Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson

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The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Rene, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Rene is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With humor and intelligence she scrutinizes the lives of the buildings tenants, who for their part are barely aware of her existence. Then theres Paloma, a twelve-year-old genius. She is the daughter of a tedious parliamentarian, a talented…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Europa Editions, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Writer and philosophy professor Muriel Barbery was born in Casablanca, Morocco on May 28, 1969 and raised in France. She attended the ï¿½cole Normale Supï¿½rieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud from 1990 to 1993 and then taught philosophy at the Universitï¿½ de Bourgogne, in a lycï¿½e, and at the Saint-Lï¿½ IUFM. Barbery has published the bestselling novels L'ï¿½lï¿½gance du hï¿½risson (The Elegance of the Hedgehog) and Une Gourmandise (Gourmet Rhapsody).