"The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery
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. This dark but redemptive novel, an international bestseller, marks the debut in English of Normandy philosophy professor Barbery.
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