376 pages
English language
Published 2011 by Isis, Isis Large Print.
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. But Renee has a secret. Beneath this conventional facade she is passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her self-important employers. Down in her lodge, Renee is resigned to living a lie; meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid a predictably bourgeois future, and plans to commit suicide on her 13th 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.
Lahko kar neham brati druge knjige, gospa pisateljica je tako visoko postavila lestvico. Super mešanica steklenih stropov, filozofije in Lepega.
On glass ceilings, philosophy (of Beautiful). The writer set the bar so high that after I read this book it's hard to find something as satisfying as this book.
The plot and characters provided no surprises. None.
One of the main characters, Renée Michel, pontificates (privately, to herself and occasionally to her cat) on Philosophy and Art...heaven forbid that her Natural Intelligence be evident to any lowly human being.
The other protagonist, Paloma Josse, is in the midst of adolescent angst.
Most of the chapters are just a few pages long, so the book was a fairy quick read. Sections voiced in Renée's pompous voice begged to be skipped, and I did just that.
