Muriel Barbery
Born
in Casablanca, Morocco
May 28, 1969
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
230 editions
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2006
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Gourmet Rhapsody
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2000
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A Single Rose
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2020
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The Life of Elves
60 editions
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2015
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Une heure de ferveur
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2022
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The Writer's Cats
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A Strange Country
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2019
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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses Muriel Barbery's novel: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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Thomas Helder
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Extraits - Romans incontournables Folio
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“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art...325 pages - Pb £5.99 Kindle n/aThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
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