Barbery Muriel: Life of Elves

The highly anticipated new novel from the acclaimed author of "The Elegance of the Hedgehog", this is literary fantasy in a similar vein of Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Buried Giant". In Burgundy in the autumn, thick snow covers everything, and dark-eyed baby Maria is discovered; hundreds of miles away in the mountains of Abruzzo, foundling Clara astonishes everyone with her piano playing. As a great danger looms, these two girls must unite: they are the only chance for good to prevail in the world.