"Following on the success of THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG, and already a worldwide sensation, HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS finally comes to America. As Hector travels from Paris to China to Africa to the United States, he keeps a list of observations about the people he meets, hoping to find the secret to happiness. Hector's journey around the world and into the human soul is entertaining, empowering, and smile inducing - as winning in its optimism as it is powerful in its insight and reassuring in its simplicity. A Warner Bros. film is in development, with casting soon to be announced. A Penguin Original TP."--Publisher.

First published in France as "Le voyage d'Hector ou la recherché du bonheur", by Odile Jacob. Includes an excerpt from François Lelord's second novel about Hector.