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The 54-year-old concierge of the building. She maintains a facade of being "culturally unrefined" to meet society’s expectations of her job. In reality, she is an autodidact with a profound love for philosophy, art, and Russian literature. La elegancia del erizo.epub
A highly gifted 12-year-old girl living in one of the luxury apartments. Disillusioned by the "vacuous" lives of the wealthy adults around her, she plans to end her life on her thirteenth birthday unless she can find a reason to live. A digital copy is available for limited borrowing
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Both Renée and Paloma believe that to be happy, one must hide their intellect from those who wouldn't understand it.
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The arrival of a new tenant, a Japanese gentleman named Kakuro Ozu , disrupts their isolation. He is the only one who sees through their facades, eventually bringing the two women together to find beauty and friendship in "the elegance of the hedgehog"—a metaphor for being outwardly prickly but inwardly refined. Core Themes