Impossible City

Paris in the Twenty-First Century

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<p><b>A <i>FINANCIAL TIMES </i>BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024</b><br><b><br>A Waterstones Best History Book of 2024 Pick </b><br><br><b>'</b><b>Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this </b><b>entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology</b><b>' <i>The Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>From the bestselling author of <i>Chums </i>comes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.</b><br><br> Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city's notorious <i>banlieues,</i> and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on his family's neighbourhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change.<br><br> This century, Paris has globalised, gentrified, and been shocked into realising its role as the crucible of civilisational conflict. Sometimes it's a multicultural paradise, and sometimes it isn't. This decade, Parisians have lived through a sequence of shocks: terrorist attacks, record floods and heatwaves, the burning of Notre Dame, the storming of the city by <i>gilets jaunes</i>, and the pandemic. Now, as the Olympics come to town, France is busy executing the 'Grand Paris' project: the most serious attempt yet to knit together the bejewelled city with its neglected suburbs.<br><br> This is a captivating memoir of today's Paris without the clichés.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781800816503

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

197 x 129 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

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