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L'Élégance du hérisson
by Muriel Barbery
📚Literary fiction~413 pages
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In an elegant Paris apartment building, Renée the concierge hides a secret life of philosophy, Japanese cinema and Tolstoy behind a deliberately dowdy exterior. Upstairs, twelve-year-old Paloma, brilliant and disillusioned, keeps a journal of profound thoughts and plans her own quiet rebellion. When a new tenant arrives and begins to see both of them clearly, the building's careful hierarchies start to shift. Told in two alternating voices, wry and observant by turns, this bestselling French novel is a small-world story about class, loneliness and the unexpected friendships that make an ordinary life beautiful.
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