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"One of the most life-affirming and, well, elegant books I've read in a long time." (Debra Bruno, Chicago Sun-Times)
The bestselling Elegance of the Hedgehog appeared on a number of 2008 year-end "best of" lists. Here are some of them: The Washington Post's five best books of 2008. More >> The... -
Preview of Europa's winter 2009 list
(January--TOKYO FIANCEE) We begin the year with Belgian-born one-time enfant terrible and now bona fide literary phenomenon Amélie Nothomb. Since her debut in 1992 with Hygiène de l’assassin... -
Hedgehog Makes NY Mag Taste Matrix
This week NY Magazine rated The Elegance of the Hedgehog close to highbrow and almost brilliant. -
Hedgehog on 3%'s 2008 best translated fiction longlist
"A destination for readers, editors, and translators interested in finding out about modern and contemporary international literature," 3% hopes to change the current situation in America concerning... -
Hedgehog chosen as one of the best reads of 2008
The Washington Post, following up on Michael Dirda's great early review back in September in which he described the novel as "gently satirical, exceptionally winning and inevitably bittersweet,"... -
Philadelphia Inquirer: "No recent Italian novel so elegantly and directly confronts the 'new Italy.'"
Into the 'new Italy' A novelist confronts the country's modern clash of cultures. from the Philadelphia Inquirer In decades past, a kind of honorary chair existed in American publishing for a "great"... -
Thanks
Thanks to our friends at independent booksellers across the country The Elegance of the Hedgehog has reached eighth place on the nationwide independent booksellers bestseller list. Independent booksellers... -
Blogging the Hog
The Elegance of the Hedgehog blogs: the good, the bad, and the ugly online and on our brave little Hedgehog... 3 quarks daily places Dirda's Washington Post review Muguet de Paris: "This is... -
The Elegance of the Hedgehog: up ten places on the NYT bestseller list
In its first week on the shelves The Elegance of the Hedgehog, the novel The Chicago Sun-Times said “leaps to soaring heights—movingly and beautifully,” made the extended New York Times... -
Europa Makes a Mark
from The News & Observer If you ask independent booksellers to name publishers they respect, one name that surfaces is Europa Editions. They publish high-quality literary fiction, primarily European...