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Philadelphia Inquirer: "No recent Italian novel so elegantly and directly confronts the 'new Italy.'"
Into the 'new Italy' A novelist confronts the country's modern clash of cultures. from the Philadelphia Inquirer In decades past, a kind of honorary chair existed in American publishing for a "great"... -
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Thanks to our friends at independent booksellers across the country The Elegance of the Hedgehog has reached eighth place on the nationwide independent booksellers bestseller list. Independent booksellers... -
Blogging the Hog
The Elegance of the Hedgehog blogs: the good, the bad, and the ugly online and on our brave little Hedgehog... 3 quarks daily places Dirda's Washington Post review Muguet de Paris: "This is... -
The Elegance of the Hedgehog: up ten places on the NYT bestseller list
In its first week on the shelves The Elegance of the Hedgehog, the novel The Chicago Sun-Times said “leaps to soaring heights—movingly and beautifully,” made the extended New York Times... -
Europa Makes a Mark
from The News & Observer If you ask independent booksellers to name publishers they respect, one name that surfaces is Europa Editions. They publish high-quality literary fiction, primarily European... -
Amazon Readers Reviews: A collection of reader responses from Amazon.com
"Thoughtful, ironic, and often darkly humorous, the novel creates moods which bring the characters vividly to life, even as they are contemplating death and the deepest of life's mysteries."—Mary... -
LA Times on some of our recent titles
In an apartment building of immigrants, one resident is convinced the others don't like him because he hates pizza. You might think New York, but it's Rome, and when an inconvenient corpse shows up, the... -
Time: "Wins over its fans with a life-affirming message...and Barbery's frequently wicked sense of humor."
from TIME Many authors dream of getting their books onto best-seller lists, but few pull it off with the panache of French writer Muriel Barbery. Her second novel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, has... -
Hedgehog an IndieBound Notable title
The Elegance of the Hedgehog selected as an IndieBound September Notable title. IndieBound rallies passionate readers around a celebration of independent stores and independent thinking. It’s... -
Hedgehog: #5 in Spain, #1 in Italy, #10 in France, #5 in Germany . . .
1.2 million copies and 90 weeks on the bestseller lists later, Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog is still holding strong to its place on the top ten list in France; in Spain it is now fifth...