(Ebook) Paris Noir: The Suburbs by Hervé Delouche ISBN 9781617757556, 9781617759918, 1617757551, 1617759910

(Ebook) Paris Noir: The Suburbs by Hervé Delouche ISBN 9781617757556, 9781617759918, 1617757551, 1617759910

Following the success of Paris Noir, the Akashic Noir Series has expanded to include the famously diverse and sometimes controversial suburbs of this legendary city. Featuring brand-new stories by: Cloé Mehdi, Karim Madani, Insa Sané, Christian Roux, Marc Villard, Jean-Pierre Rumeau, Timothée Demeillers, Rachid Santaki, Marc Fernandez, Guillaume Balsamo, Anne Secret, Anne-Sylvie Salzman, and Patrick Pécherot. (All stories were written in French and translated into English.) From the editor's introduction: "The term 'Greater Paris' is in vogue today, for it has an administrative cachet and seems to denote a simple extension of the capital--as if a ravenous Paris need only extend her web. However, it was not our goal to embrace the tenets of the metro area's comprehensive plan, aka the Grand Projet, envisioned as a future El Dorado by the planners and developers. Rather, our aim was to depict the Parisian suburbs in all their plurality and diversity, as illustrated by the stories in this collection. Without pretending to encompass every spot on the map, we instead opted to give voice and exposure to the localities chosen by the writers who have been part of this adventure. Thus, we decided to adopt the word 'suburbs'--in the plural, obviously, for the periphery of the capital is not a homogeneous block, nor is it reducible to a cliché like 'the suburban ring' . . . "In 1992, in the publication Gulliver, created by Michel Le Bris in the spirit of the Étonnants Voyageurs literary festival, the late Jean-Bernard Pouy, a longtime resident of Ivry, offered up a story, 'Transports en particuliers,' in which he wrote, 'And perhaps the love of the suburbs persists, thanks to those who knew them before, that is to say, before they became bedroom communities, when the smallish cities all around Paris still operated as the "Red Belt," preventing the huge, blubbery stomach of Paris from spilling over into the countryside. But it's surely true that everyone now living there is in