by Muriel Barbery · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432228216
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«La elegancia del erizo» is the literary novel by Muriel Barbery, published by Seix Barral in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
In a bourgeois building in Paris, Renée, the concierge, appears to be an ordinary woman, and Paloma, a twelve-year-old girl, hides an exceptional intelligence. The arrival of a new neighbour brings about the encounter between the two, and together they discover the beauty of everyday life and the happiness that friendship, love and art provide.
Work originally published as «L'Élégance du hérisson»; translation by Isabel González-Gallarza. It won the French Booksellers Prize and was freely adapted into film.
Recommended for readers of literary and contemporary fiction seeking a story with a philosophical backdrop; common in reading clubs.
Muriel Barbery is a French novelist and philosophy teacher. Her 2006 novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog quickly sold more than a million copies in several countries.
