ARGONAUT BOOKS

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...Read More