Gorgeously original, full of wry humour and razor-sharp observation, redolent of Paris, its foibles, its food and its neglected corners, Hunting and Gathering is a universal story about despair, love and the virtues of ensemble-playing in a naughty world
ISBN:
9780099494072
Author:
Anna Gavalda
Page:
474
Binding:
Soft cover
Publication date:
2007
Format:
Book
Publisher:
VINTAGE BOOKS
Language:
English
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Price: 4 290 Ft
Stock: 1-10 copies
Description
Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Philibert Marquet de La Durbellie`re is a stammering, erudite aristocrat who sells postcards outside a museum. One evening he overcomes his own excruciating reticence to rescue Camille, unconscious, from her freezing garret, and install her in the large, ornate apartment he is caretaking downstairs. He already has an unlikely flatmate, the foul-mouthed, talented working-class young chef,