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    <![CDATA[The Elegance of the Hedgehog]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>The enthralling international bestseller.</strong><br/><br/> We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. RenÃ©e, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, RenÃ©e is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With humor and intelligence she scrutinizes the lives of the buildingÂ’s tenants, who for their part are barely aware of her existence. <br/><br/> Then thereÂ’s Paloma, a twelve-year-old genius. She is the daughter of a tedious parliamentarian, a talented and startlingly lucid child who has decided to end her life on the sixteenth of June, her thirteenth birthday. Until then she will continue behaving as everyone expects her to behave: a mediocre pre-teen high on adolescent subculture, a good but not an outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. <br/><br/> Paloma and RenÃ©e hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building. Only he is able to gain PalomaÂ’s trust and to see through RenÃ©eÂ’s timeworn disguise to the secret that haunts her. This is a moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us. <br/><br/>]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Alison Anderson]]></name>
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    <![CDATA[Gourmet Rhapsody]]>
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    <![CDATA[From the author of the New York Times bestseller, <em>The Elegance of the Hedgehog.</em><br/><br/> In the heart of Paris, in the posh building made famous in <em>The Elegance of the Hedgehog</em>, Pierre Athens, the greatest food critic in the world, is dying. Revered by some and reviled by many, Monsieur Arthens has been lording it over the world’s most esteemed chefs for years, passing judgment on their creations, deciding their fates with a stroke of his pen, destroying and building reputations on a whim. But now, during these his final hours, his mind has turned to simpler things. He is desperately searching for that singular flavor, that sublime something once sampled, never forgotten, <em>the Flavor</em> par excellence. Indeed, this flamboyant and self-absorbed man desires only one thing before he dies: one last taste. <br/><br/> Thus begins a charming voyage that traces the career of Monsieur Arthens from childhood to maturity across a celebration of all manner of culinary delights. Alternating with the voice of the supercilious Arthens is a chorus belonging to his acquaintances and familiars—relatives, lovers, a would-be protege, even a cat. Each will have his or her say about M. Arthens, a man who has inspired only extreme emotions in people. Here, as in <em>The Elegance of Hedgehog</em>, Muriel Barbery’s story celebrates life’s simple pleasures and sublime moments while condemning the arrogance and vulgarity of power.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Die letzte Delikatesse: Roman]]>
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    <![CDATA[Pierre Arthens’ Auftritt ist geschmacklos. Das jedenfalls glaubt eine Stimme namens Georges in <em>Die letzte Delikatesse</em>. Die Art und Weise nämlich, wie der – seiner eigenen Meinung nach – “größte Restauranttester aller Zeiten” vom jeweiligen Speisesaal Besitz ergreift, wie er sich vor den geschäftig um ihn herumschwirrenden Obern als “löwenhafte Majestät” und König aufspielt, ist faszinierend und ekelhaft zugleich. Jetzt liegt Arthens im Sterben. Nach Auskunft seines Arztes hat er nur noch 48 Stunden zu leben. Aber statt sich im Kreise seiner Familie würdig von der Welt zu verabschieden, jagt er, der von den Kochtöpfen der Großmutter in seiner Kindheit zu seinem Treiben verführt worden ist, dem letzten großen Genuss hinterher, den er mit ins Grab zu nehmen gedenkt.<p>  Aus der Ich-Perspektive von Arthens, aber auch aus der Sicht seiner Familienangehörigen und Bekannten, eines Obdachlosen und sogar eines Kunstwerks auf seinem Schreibtisch entwirft die französische Schriftstellerin Muriel Barbery das sensible Psychogramm eines einsamen Menschen, der selbst im Angesicht des Todes nur mehr mit seiner Zunge und seinem Gaumen zu denken versteht. Das ist schon meisterlich gemacht und jederzeit überaus lesenswert – auch wenn, zumindest in der Übersetzung, nicht jede Figur in jedem Kapitel eine unverwechselbare Stimme bekommt. Aber das will man als Leser gern verschmerzen.<p>  In Deutschland kommt dieser Debütroman Barberys nach ihrem Sensationserfolg <em>Die Eleganz des Igels</em> auf den Buchmarkt, und wer dieses fulminante Buch gelesen hat, sollte sich erst einmal frei machen von jedweden Erwartungshaltungen, die die Lektüre des Bestsellers für diesen kurzen Roman vielleicht im Vorfeld geschürt haben könnte. Nur dann kann das Rezept von <em>Die letzte Delikatesse</em> aufgehen. Und das hat das Buch auch wirklich verdient. Denn die Zutaten, die Barbery in ihrer Geschichte zusammenrührt und auftischt, sind derart schmackhaft angerichtet, dass sich in der Gesamtheit ein wundervolles Lesemenü ergibt. <em>-- Stefan Kellerer </em></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Dictionnaire Canadien-Francais]]>
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