Mimi and Marc: Thank you both! ;-)

Marc, here's a few previews, look good to me!!!

http://www.allocine.fr/video/player_gen_cmedia=18895579&cfilm=135234.html

I agree. mimi, that it's a great novel. Best I read this year, too. Apparently, though, Barbery was not happy with the film adaptation, which is being advertised as "inspired by the novel. . . ."

I read a description of her first novel, which sounds very clever. When I make it back to Paris, next month, I intend to pick it up. If it lives up to expectations, I'll post.

translated from the French, is the best book I have read this year.
it already is made into a motion picture. i'll be anxious to see it.