The Elegance of the HedgehogThe phenomenal New York Times bestseller that "explores the upstairs downstairs goings on of a posh Parisian apartment building" (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant htel particulier in Paris, Rene, the concierge, is all but invisible short, plump, middle aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she's everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building