Muriel Barbery, trans. from the French by Alison Anderson. Europa, $17 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-60945-315-2
In an unnamed year, France and Italy are home to small groups of elves living precariously among dangerous humans. Two young girls can bridge the gap between human and elven cultures and save the elves, but only if they survive a story whose urgency
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Muriel Barbery, Author, Alison Anderson, Translator , trans. from the French by Alison Anderson. Europa $15.95 (325p) ISBN 978-1-933372-60-0
This dark but redemptive novel, an international bestseller, marks the debut in English of Normandy philosophy professor Barbery. Renée Michel, 54 and widowed, is the stolid concierge in an elegant Paris hôtel particulier
. Though “
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Muriel Barbery, Author, Alison Anderson, Translator , trans. from the French by Alison Anderson. Europa $15 (156p) ISBN 978-1-933372-95-2
French novelist Barbery's sensuous first novel, being released here after the phenomenal success of her second novel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
, encompasses a series of witty reflections on the life and career of famous, unlovable French...
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Muriel Barbery, Author, Barbara Rosenblat, Read by, Cassandra Morris, Read by , read by Barbara Rosenblat and Cassandra Morris. Highbridge $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59887-925-4
This audio version of the surprise French bestseller hits the mark as both performance and story. The leisurely pace of the novel, which explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building, lends itself well to audio,...
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Muriel Barbery trans. from the French by Alison Anderson. Europa, $18 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-60945-585-9
In the convoluted follow-up to The Lives of Elves, Barbery pits humans and elves against a common enemy bent on destruction. In an alternate history, it’s 1938, a world war rages, and Spain is mired in civil war. Gen. Alejandro de Yepes and his...
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Muriel Barbery, trans. from the French by Alison Anderson. Europa, $22 (160p) ISBN 978-1-60945-677-1
Barbery (The Elegance of the Hedgehog) returns with a lyrical and opaque story of a French woman grieving her Japanese father, a man she’d never met. Forty-year-old Parisian botanist Rose travels to Kyoto for the reading of the will of her father,...
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Muriel Barbery, trans. from the French by Alison Anderson. Europa, $24 (196p) ISBN 979-8-88966-004-0
Barbery (The Elegance of the Hedgehog) focuses her exquisite latest on Haru Ueno, a successful Kyoto art dealer whose life is disrupted when, after a brief affair in 1970, his French lover, Maud, informs him in a letter she is pregnant and that she...
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