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Paris Noir
Paperback
Series: Akashic Noir
Mystery & ThrillerFiction Anthologies
ISBN13: 9781933354637
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Nov 1 2008
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.18
Language: English
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.
Brand-new stories by: Didier Daeninckx, Jean-Bernard Pouy, Marc Villard, Chantal Pelletier, Patrick Pécherot, DOA, Hervé Prudon, Dominique Mainard, Salim Bachi, Jérôme Leroy, Laurent Martin, and Christophe Mercier.
From the introduction by Aurélien Masson:
Paris is a city that lives, and thus dies, every day. No point hiding behind history or war memories. What is a threat to Paris, to its noir dimension even, is potential museumification, the possibility of the city turning into a big theme park. In Paris, after all, everything is still there. All you have to do is look around with eyes wide open . . .
Beyond the lights, beyond the cafés and bars, Paris is sometimes like a grave. It's a city you run away from, or at least dream of running away from. But on every street corner, the past jumps at your throat like a grimacing hyena . . .
You don't inhabit your city, you dream it. All I can do now is invite you to enter the dream.
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