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READS-TO-GO by Muriel Barbery; Alison Anderson; New Hampshire Library Association Reference and Adult Services (READS); New Hampshire Library Association READS-TO-GO is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, 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, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With humor and intelligence she scrutinizes the lives of the building's tenants, who for their part are barely aware of her existence.Then there'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.Paloma and Renée hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. The

Who reads READS-TO-GO?

Author

Muriel Barbery; Alison Anderson; New Hampshire Library Association Reference and Adult Services (READS); New Hampshire Library Association READS-TO-GO

Publisher

Europa Editions, Incorporated

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609450137

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.74 / 5 (103,008 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14