{"product_id":"impossible-city-by-simon-kuper-9781800816503","title":"Impossible City","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKuper is a shrewd observer in this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 \u003cem\u003ebanlieues\u003c\/em\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 shocks: terrorist attacks, record floods and heatwaves, the burning of Notre Dame, the storming of the city by \u003cem\u003egilets jaunes\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a captivating memoir of today's Paris without the clichés.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46593597571308,"sku":"9781800816503","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4265123482829.jpg?v=1751003862","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/impossible-city-by-simon-kuper-9781800816503","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}