![]() ![]() Available in used condition with free US shipping on orders over 10. First published in French 2004 this translation 2006. Buy Hunting and Gathering By Anna Gavalda. It's a big novel that you will not want to put down. 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. ![]() Together, this curious, damaged little quartet may be able to face the world. 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. Its original French title is Ensemble, cest tout, which means Being together. 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. Hunting and Gathering is a 2004 novel by the French writer Anna Gavalda. ![]() Philibert Marquet de La Durbelliere is a stammering, erudite aristocrat who sells postcards outside a museum. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. ![]()
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