Impossible city : Paris in the twenty-first century

Kuper, Simon2024

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Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being & 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, & 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, & been shocked into realising its role as the crucible of civilisational conflict. Sometimes it's a multicultural paradise, & sometimes it isn't. This decade, Parisians have lived through a sequence of shocks: terrorist attacks, record floods & heatwaves, the burning of Notre Dame, the storming of the city by gilets jaunes, & the pandemic. This is a captivating memoir of today's Paris without the clichés.