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Nation Pigalle
Paperback
Series: La Bleue
ISBN13: 9782234065079
Publisher: Stock
Published: Mar 30 2011
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.33
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
NATION PIGALLE
You are French because (tick relevant box)
- You were born in France and at least one of your parents was born in France
- You were born in France and at least one of your parents was born in a former French départment or territory.
- You were born in France and at least one of your parents is French
- You were not born in France and at least one of your parents...
Today, in the Pigalle neighbourhood of Paris, an old woman sets fire to her apartment. This desperate act turns the lives of countless people around her upside down, from other inhabitants in her building to her cleaner, via her only son who lives a few streets away, and the wife he is about to leave for another woman. They all feel they have been set adrift and discover new, unexpected facets of themselves.
Nation Pigalle roams from sex shops so supermarket dustbins, from childminders' apartments to former brothels, waiting rooms to furiously expensive shops, meeting as many breathless middle-class shoppers as homeless dropouts, as well as children, teenagers, repatriated colonials, a Russian piano teacher, a Chinese seamstress, Romanian acrobats, an Icelandic volcano, a football World Cup, a Moulin Rouge or even a mad poet. It is a brutal x-ray of an ailing consumer society, of a France struggling to find its identity... and the truth may lie not in passports but in the spontaneous babble on its streets.
Anne Plantagenet is the author of novels (Le Prisonnier, Stock 2009, J'ai Lu, 2010; Seule au rendez-vous, Robert Laffont, 2005; and Un Coup de corne fut mon premier baiser, Ramsay 1998), biographies (Marilyn Monroe, Folio biographies 2007; and Manolete, le calife foudroyé, Au diable Vauvert, 2010), short stories (Pour les siècles des siècles, Stock 2008, J'ai Lu 2009) and numerous translations of Spanish and South American novels. Having lived in London and Seville, she now lives in Paris.
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