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320 p Summary: "Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building on the Left Bank. To the residents she is honest, reliable and uncultivated - an ideal concierge. ... meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid a predictably bourgeois futue, and plans to commit suicide on her thirteenth birthday. But the death of one of their privileged neighbours will bring dramatic change to number 7, Rue de Grenelle, altering the course of both their lives forever"--back cover Translation of: L'elegance du herisson