The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Some books leave you feeling a little light-headed and breathless after the tour de force ending, and unable to grasp reality as your thoughts are clearly still with the story, which at this point, you are unable to convince yourself that all that happened are simply part of the writer's imagination. This book is one of them. I will give it 4.5 stars, the 0.5 stars short of perfect for my inability to understand every idea and thought canvassed in the book.