The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery journalism and the question barely registered

and the question barely registered

After reading an article about the thousands of baby girls languishing in Chinese orphanages

hoping to save her uncertain marriage

meet at a taverna on the island they both call home

The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery journalism and the question barely registeredThe phenomenal New York Times bestseller that explores the upstairs downstairs goings on of a posh Parisian apartment building (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant htel particulier in Paris, Rene, the concierge, is all but invisibleshort, plump, middle aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, shes everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in