{"product_id":"impossible-city-by-simon-kuper","title":"Impossible City By Simon Kuper","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageTitleSection\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageTitleSection__title\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKuper is a shrewd observer [in] this\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eentertaining mix of memoir and anthropology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChums\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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\u003cspan\u003eSimon 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ebanlieues,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis 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 terrorist attacks, record floods and heatwaves, the burning of Notre Dame, the storming of the city by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003egilets jaunes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the pandemic. Now, as the Olympics come to town, France is busy executing the 'Grand Paris' the most serious attempt yet to knit together the bejewelled city with its neglected suburbs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is a captivating memoir of today's Paris without the clichés.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Wide Genre","offers":[{"title":"Soft Cover","offer_id":47505602216156,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hard Cover","offer_id":47505602248924,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/2044\/5148\/files\/22_5b1a325f-4889-4303-9600-4c0b2b49e790.png?v=1769703389","url":"https:\/\/widegenre.com\/products\/impossible-city-by-simon-kuper","provider":"WideGenre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}