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\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES \u003c/i\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR 2024\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Waterstones Best History Book of 2024 Pick \u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKuper is a shrewd observer [in] this \u003c/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eentertaining mix of memoir and anthropology\u003c/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e' \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eChums \u003c/i\u003ecomes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ebanlieues,\u003c/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003egilets jaunes\u003c/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is a captivating memoir of today's Paris without the clichés.\u003c/p\u003e |
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