![]() ![]() And yet she really makes an effort, like, you can tell she is doing everything she possibly can to act like a concierge and come across as stupid. “As for Madame Michel…how can we tell? She radiates intelligence. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a novel that celebrates the inconspicuous among us, it’s poignant, funny, and intelligent. I am quite happy reading literary novels, I do so quite frequently, the philosophical I am less keen on, but actually in this novel I was fine with it. My ignorance of this book was such, that I had no idea of just how literary it is, nor how philosophical. So, this #Witmonth I decided to read it having seen quite a bit of hype about Muriel Babery’s latest novel on social media. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is one such book for me – I didn’t even really know what it was about, and had forgotten it was a novel in translation. ![]() ![]() I think for many of us there are those books which we have been aware of for years, the covers of which are instantly recognisable, and yet have still totally passed us by. Translated from the French by Alison Anderson ![]()
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