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The elegance of the hedgehog

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.

Main Author: Barbery, Muriel, 1969-
Corporate Author: Recorded Books, LLC., HighBridge Audio (Firm)
Other Authors: Anderson, Alison., Rosenblat, Barbara. (Narrator), Morris, Cassandra, 1982- (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
French
Published: Minneapolis, MN : Prince Frederick, MD : HighBridge ; Distributed by Recorded Books, p2009.
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Apartment concierges > France > Paris > Fiction.
Apartment dwellers > France > Paris > Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Title from container.
Translated from the French.
In container (17 cm.).
Compact disc.
Physical Description: 8 sound discs (9 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9781598879254
1598879251
Author Notes: 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.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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