Hunting and Gathering - Softcover

Gavalda, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099494078 ISBN 13: 9780099494072

Publisher: Vintage, 2007

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: Jun Pages: 480 in Publisher: Vintage Books USA. Already a bestseller in several countries this enchanting novel about a collection of misfits in Paris is quirky. Poignant and unputdownable - Gavalda is a new young literary star. 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 Durbelli'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. Franck. who is made more obnoxious by guilt about the beloved grandmother he's had to put in a home. Together. this curious. damag...

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Review:

"Enjoyable, well-paced and engaging" (Lucille Houston Times Literary Supplement)

"Like Amélie, Hunting and Gathering stops at nothing to make the reader feel good. Reading it reminded me of tucking into one of those beautifully constructed little cakes that you see in the windows of elegant French patisseries" (Sunday Telegraph)

"A charming, romantic - and very French - novel" (Rev'd Amber Pearson Daily Mail)

"An elegant, ironic tale.. this will be a classic" (Cosmopolitan)

"Gavalda's ability to reinvent the will-they-won't-they love story makes this a refreshing five-star read with real bite" (Eve)

From the Publisher:

Already a bestseller in several countries, this enchanting novel about a collection of misfits in Paris is quirky, poignant and unputdownable - Gavalda is a new young literary star.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0099494078
• ISBN 13: 9780099494072
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480