![]() Despite her natural exuberance and affection for Japanese manga and tea - a rapacious curiosity - she’s a sad child who suspects that life is futile. ![]() She yearns for life to prove to her that there is real beauty in the world. ![]() She documents resentments of her family in a journal labeled ‘profound thoughts,’ enumerating her issues with their wealth, their frivolousness, their privilege, their hypocrisy. Paloma is a typical pre-teen in her disdain for her family. Renée is secretly a reader and deep thinker who consciously dons her frumpiness like armor against the wealthy, vapid neighbors she serves in her building.Īnd Paloma. Little do the residents know that it’s all by design. She’s prickly, irascible, dowdy, her television playing nonstop in the background. Sure, on the outside, Renée fits the stereotype of an inconsequential concierge. ![]() ![]() When their paths intersect, their lives open up in ways neither could ever have expected. Meet two unforgettable heroines who live in an elegant apartment building in Paris: Renée, the 54-year-old concierge who is so much more than people think, and Paloma, a precocious 12-year-old unhappily trapped in a bourgeois family. Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (translator) ![]()
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