Renee Michel is the dumpy, nondescript, 54-year-old concierge of a small and exclusive Paris apartment building. Paloma Josse also lives there. Acutely intelligent, introspective and philosophical, this 12-year-old views the world as absurd and records her observations about it in her journal. These two characters provide the double narrative. The book reflects on the nature of beauty and art, the meaning of life and death, presented in a gently satirical and inevitably bittersweet way.
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