The elegance of the hedgehog
By: Muriel Barbery
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Isis; Isis Large Print
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780753186138; 9780753186121
Subjects: Apartment concierges; Fiction; Apartment dwellers; Large type books
Description: Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building on the Left Bank. To the residents she is honest, reliable and uncultivated - an ideal concierge. But Renee has a secret. Beneath this conventional facade she is passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her self-important employers. Down in her lodge, Renee is resigned to living a lie; meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid a predictably bourgeois future, and plans to commit suicide on her 13th birthday. But the death of one of their privileged neighbours will bring dramatic change to number 7, Rue de Grenelle, altering the course of both their lives forever.
Notes: Adult.

Translated from the French.