The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Synopsis

The international bestseller that has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. The elegance of the hedgehog is a moving, funny, atmospheric novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us. We are in an elegant hôtel particulier in the center of paris. Renée, the building's concierge, is short, ugly, and plump. She has bunions on her feet. She is cantankerous and addicted to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, leo. In short, she is everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in a posh parisian neighborhood.