{"product_id":"impossible-city-paris-in-the-twenty-first-century","title":"Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century","description":"An entertaining and openhearted tale of a naïf eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society - at least a little.\n\nWhen Simon Kuper left London for Paris in his early thirties, he wasn't planning to make a permanent move. Paris, however, had other\nplans. Kuper has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, seen his American wife through life-threatening cancer, 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 their neighborhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change.\n\nThis century, it has globalized, gentrified, and been shocked into realizing its role as the crucible of civilizational 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 then 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.\n\nThis is a captivating memoir of the Paris of today, without the Parisian clichés.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1541704827\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1541704827.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Kuper, Simon\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41694828494906,"sku":"DBV.1541704827.VG","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1541704827-0.jpg?v=1790220663","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/impossible-city-paris-in-the-twenty-first-century","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}