The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Audiobook) By Muriel Barbery, read by Cassandra Morris, Barbara Rosenblat
2009 | 9 hours and 35 mins | ISBN: 1598879251 | MP3 128 kbps | 553 MB
2009 | 9 hours and 35 mins | ISBN: 1598879251 | MP3 128 kbps | 553 MB
This audio version of the surprise French bestseller hits the mark as both performance and story. The leisurely pace of the novel, which explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building, lends itself well to audio, and those who might have been tempted to skip through the novel's more laborious philosophical passages (the author is a professor of philosophy) will savor these ruminations when read aloud. Tony Award–winning actress Barbara Rosenblat positively embodies the concierge, Renée Michel, who deliberately hides her radiant intelligence from the upper-crust residents of 7 rue de Grenelle, and the performance of Cassandra Morris as the precocious girl who recognizes Renée as a kindred spirit is nothing short of a revelation. Morris's voice, inflection and timbre all conspire to make the performance entirely believable.