- Apartment dwellers, class in fiction, Apartment concierges, Fiction
EA novel by the French professor of philosophy Muriel Barbery. The book centers on a working-class concierge of an upscale apartment building in Paris, Renee Michel. She is an auto-didact of immense learning who deliberately conceals her intelligence.
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Contemporary, contemplative, intimate and character-led.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Muriel Barbery
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 325
- Publisher
- Isis Large Print, Europa Editions, Gallic Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780753186138
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