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Sunday, August 09, 2009

Link to : Muriel Barbery: An Elegant Quill

Had a great time at the jazz festival and drinks last evening.
Here's a very nice review of "Elegance of The Hedgehog"

As the two characters' lives overlap, Paloma comes to discover Renée's secret gifts, and to appreciate her self-effacing elder as having "the elegance of a hedgehog: a real fortress, bristling with quills on the outside . . . deceptively sluggish, ferociously independent, yet terribly elegant."