Brilliant. As the blurb/a reviewer says, partly a hymn to Paris, but also via the alternating and very different narrators, an exploration of darker and more obscure bits of 20th century history - Arabs in Paris, the Franco Algerian war and its aftermath, and Parisian working class women under Nazi occupation, and Vichy rule in the 1940’s (not to mention the Paris underground rail system – if I hadn’t been in Malaga I would have bought a map).
Oblique on its focus, but very good.
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