EAN: 9781800816480

IMPOSSIBLE CITY - SIMON KUPER GEBUNDEN

'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  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. 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 gilets jaunes  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. This is a captivating memoir of
today's Paris without the clichés.

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