The Elegance of the Hedgehog 1st Edition by Muriel Barbery 1609450132 9781609450137
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ISBN 10: 1609450132
ISBN 13: 9781609450137
Author: Muriel Barbery
The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that “explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building” (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible—short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she’s everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in an upscale neighborhood. But Renée has a secret: She furtively, ferociously devours art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With biting humor, she scrutinizes the lives of the tenants—her inferiors in every way except that of material wealth. Paloma is a twelve-year-old who lives on the fifth floor. Talented and precocious, she’s come to terms with life’s seeming futility and decided to end her own on her thirteenth birthday. Until then, she will continue hiding her extraordinary intelligence behind a mask of mediocrity, acting the part of an average pre-teen high on pop culture, a good but not outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. Paloma and Renée hide their true talents and finest qualities from a world they believe cannot or will not appreciate them. But after a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building, they will begin to recognize each other as kindred souls, in a novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us, and “teaches philosophical lessons by shrewdly exposing rich secret lives hidden beneath conventional exteriors” (Kirkus Reviews). “The narrators’ kinetic minds and engaging voices (in Alison Anderson’s fluent translation) propel us ahead.” —The New York Times Book Review “Barbery’s sly wit . . . bestows lightness on the most ponderous cogitations.” —The New Yorker
Table of contents:
MARX
1. Whosoever Sows Desire
2. The Miracles of Art
CAMELLIAS
1. An Aristocrat
2. On Wars and Colonies
3. The Poodle as Totem
4. Refusing the Fight
5. In a Sorry State
6. Homespun Cowls
7. In the Confederate South
8. Prophet of the Modern Elite
9. Red October
10. A Cat Called Roget
11. The Rebellion of the Mongolian Tribes
12. Phantom Comedy
13. Eternity
14. When of a Sudden, Old Japan
15. The Rich Man’s Burden
16. Constitution’s Spleen
17. A Partridge’s Ass
18. Ryabinin
ON GRAMMAR
1. Infinitesimal
2. In a Moment of Grace
3. Beneath the Skin
4. Break and Continuity
5. A Pleasant Impression
6. Wabi
SUMMER RAIN
1. Clandestine
2. The Great Work of Making Meaning
3. Beyond Time
4. Spiders’ Webs
5. Of Lace and Frills and Flounces
6. Just a Trim
7. The Vestal Virgin in Her Finery
8. Saints Alive
9. Dull Gold
10. What Congruence?
11. Existence Without Duration
12. A Wave of Hope
13. Tiny Bladder
14. How Much for One Roll?
15. A Very Civilized Noble Savage
16. And Then
17. A New Heart
18. Gentle Insomnia
PALOMA
1. Terribly Sharp
2. For All Its Invisibility
3. The Just Crusade
4. The First Principle
5. The Antipodes
6. Baby Porpoise
7. Deep Blue
8. Contented Little Sips
9. Sanae
10. Dark Clouds
11. Rain
12. Sisters
13. In the Pathways of Hell
14. From Passageway to Pathway
15. His Shoulders Soaked with Sweat
16. Something Must Come to an End
17. The Travails of Dressing Up
18. Flowing Water
19. They Shimmer
20. Gagauz Tribes
21. All Those Cups of Tea
22. Meadow Grass
23. My Camellias
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