Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
Simon Kuper
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
Simon Kuper
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Instead of joining the many Anglo expats in Paris whining about France’s high taxes, Kuper admires the generosity of the French system.
An absorbing, affectionate, astutely observed, cliche-free study of contemporary France..
As he learns to be a local... Kuper can seem a little too pleased with himself.
Enjoyable.
The book is certainly informative as a sociological study and discourse on Parisian life.
Kuper’s trenchant, emotionally moving insights into Parisians’ lives offer a very humane portrait of Parisians trying to build productive lives for themselves and their offspring in a complicated metropolis..
In self-aware prose shot through with droll wit, Kuper renders Paris’s triumphs and challenges alongside more mundane yet no less revealing moments.