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Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
Simon Kuper
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Description for Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A Waterstones Best History Book of 2024 Pick 'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. 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 banlieues, ... Read more
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A Waterstones Best History Book of 2024 Pick 'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. 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 banlieues, ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2025
Publisher
Profile Books
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781800816503
SKU
V9781800816503
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99-99
About Simon Kuper
Simon Kuper is an author and Financial Times journalist, born in Uganda and raised around the world. An Oxford graduate, he later attended Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar. He has written for the Guardian, Observer, and The Times and is also the author of Chums, The Happy Traitor, Football Against the Enemy and Barça. He lives in Paris with his ... Read more
Reviews for Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
Highly readable and amusing ... Kuper is a charming guide
New Statesman
Next time you travel to the former City of Light, take this book
Independent
An absorbing, affectionate, acutely observed, cliché-free study of contemporary Paris
Irish Times
A persuasive defence of the very idea of a city... a reminder of the countless ways ... Read more
New Statesman
Next time you travel to the former City of Light, take this book
Independent
An absorbing, affectionate, acutely observed, cliché-free study of contemporary Paris
Irish Times
A persuasive defence of the very idea of a city... a reminder of the countless ways ... Read more