The Elegance of the Hedgehog, the second novel by the French writer Muriel Barbery (born 1969), made her name famous not only in France, but also in many other countries. Muriel is passionately in love with Leo Tolstoy’s work and the culture of Japan, and she expressed both these passions in this book.
A teenage girl, smart and educated beyond her years, an elderly concierge who studies philosophical works and listens to Mozart, a wealthy Japanese man who settled in his declining years in a luxurious Parisian apartment … About what connects these people, how their lives change after they accidentally find each other, the reader will find out by opening this beautiful, subtle, fascinating novel.
Muriel Barbery
L’élégance du hérisson
© Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2006
© N. Mavlevich, translation, 2009
© M. Kozhevnikova, translation, 2009
© Edition in Russian, design.
LLC «Publishing Group
«Azbuka-Atticus» «, 2014
Publishing house AZBUKA®
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