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This is a moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.. Until then she will continue behaving as everyone expects her to behave: a mediocre pre-teen high on adolescent subculture, a good but not an outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. Paloma and Renée hide both their true talents and th

This is a moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.. Until then she will continue behaving as everyone expects her to behave: a mediocre pre-teen high on adolescent subculture, a good but not an outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. 


Paloma and Renée hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building. Only he is able to gain Paloma's trust and to see through Renée's timeworn disguise to the secret that haunts her. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. She is the daughter of a tedious parliamentarian, a talented and startlingly lucid child who has decided to end her life on the sixteenth of June, her thirteenth birthday. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. With humor and intelligence she scruti

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All rights reserved. Morris's voice, inflection and timbre all conspire to make the performance entirely believable. Tony Award–winning actress Barbara Rosenblat positively embodies the concierge, Renée Michel, who deliberately hides her radiant intelligence from the upper-crust residents of 7 rue de Grenelle, and the performance of Cassandra Morris as the precocious girl who recognizes Renée as a kindred spirit is nothing short of a revelation. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. This audio version of the surprise French bestseller hits the mark as both performance and story. . The leisurely pace of the novel, which explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building, lends itself well to audio, and those who might have been tempted to skip through the novel's more laborious philosophical passages (the author is a professor of philosophy) will savor these ruminations when read aloud. (June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. A Europa paperback

• Title : The Elegance of the Hedgehog
• Author : Muriel Barbery
• Rating : 4.84 (372 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-12-11
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 325 Pages
• Asin : 1933372605
• Language : English