![]() The main characters were each so wonderful and inspiring that they make the novel seem almost of a fantasy genre. ‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog’ is a story that filled me with warmth, happiness and comfort the entire way through. Paloma sees more to life than her family do, past material possessions and appearances. ![]() One of the two is a young girl called Paloma, who is highly intelligent and comes from your stereotype upper-class family. Two inhabitants of the flats find Renee very interesting and suspect that there is more to her than her initial appearance. For really she is a very intelligent woman who fills her days with fine music, fine food, fine philosophy and fine company. To the inhabitants of these flats she is nothing more than your stereotype concierge, and it is something she is eager for them to continue to assume. Renee is a concierge of a very upmarket set of Parisian flats. It is fundamentally about the assumptions that people make about those they don’t know. ‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog’ is a book that crosses my mind on a regular basis. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery It is a novel that concentrates on relationships between people, on love and on behaviour between the characters. ![]() Each character feels strong and interesting in their own way and it is often difficult to work out what exactly you think of them. It is a novel that is hard to summarise without giving away too much of the story’s detail, but it is certainly fair to say that as a novel it takes you places that you are not expecting to go. The story travels, it almost takes the reader on an adventure through different perspectives and different places. Many questions are put inside the readers head about his history before we are even told of his name. As a character, Rufus grabs the reader’s attention from the instant he is introduced in the first page. The novel starts with the dramatic life of Rufus Scott, a black jazz musician of 50’s New York. I read ‘Another Country’ as a part of my English Literature course at university, and is a book I hadn’t heard of beforehand but from reading the blurb alone it appealed to me very much. They are, I should mention, in no particular order.Īnother Country by James Baldwin (Penguin Classics, UK £9.99, 426pp) As it is now December and thus typically time for reflection on the year just past, I thought I would take this opportunity to consider some of the books I have particularly enjoyed reading this year.
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