The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery,
3.78  ·  Rating details ·  156,140 ratings  ·  18,358 reviews

OVER 10 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

‘Resistance is futile … you might as well buy it before someone recommends it for your book group. Its charm will make you say yes’ The Guardian

Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society’s expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renée passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives.
Down in her lodge, apart from weekly visits by her one friend Manuela, Renée lives resigned to her lonely lot with only her cat for company. Meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid the pampered and vacuous future laid out for her, and decides to end her life on her thirteenth birthday. But unknown to them both, the sudden death of one of their privileged neighbours will dramatically alter their lives forever.

By turn moving and hilarious, this unusual novel became the French publishing phenomenon of 2007: from an initial print run of 3,000 to sales of over 2 million in hardback. It took 35 weeks to reach the number one bestseller spot but has now spent longer in the French bestseller lists than Dan Brown.

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Weight 0.3 kg
Book Details

Paperback, Second English Edition, 320 pages
Published June 2008 by Gallic Books (first published August 2006)
Original Title L'Élégance du hérisson
ISBN 1906040184 (ISBN13: 9781906040185)

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