The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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Author:

Barbery, Muriel

ISBN:

978-0-606-36803-2

Publication Date:

Sep 2008

Publisher:

Turtleback

Book Format:

Hardback

List Price:

USD $26.95

Book Description:

The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.

Book Details

Detailed Subjects:

Fiction / General
Fiction / City Life

Author Biography

Barbery, Muriel (Author)

Writer and philosophy professor Muriel Barbery was born in Casablanca, Morocco on May 28, 1969 and raised in France. She attended the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud from 1990 to 1993 and then taught philosophy at the Université de Bourgogne, in a lycée, and at the Saint-Lô IUFM. Barbery has published the bestselling novels L'Élégance du hérisson (The Elegance of the Hedgehog) and Une Gourmandise (Gourmet Rhapsody). She will be at the Adelaide Writer's Week for the 2016 festival.

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