Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times

From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting to understand a compl…

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