Paris Metro – A Novel - Softcover

Steavenson, Wendell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393356795 ISBN 13: 9780393356793

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

Synopsis

From the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 to the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015, Paris Metro is a story of East meets West. Kit, a reporter, has spent several years after 9/11 living in the Middle East, working as a correspondent for an American newspaper. Along the way she falls in love and marries a charismatic Iraqi diplomat named Ahmed, before their separation leaves Kit raising their teenage son alone in Paris. But after the Charlie Hebdo attack occurs and, a few months later, terrorists storm the Bataclan, Kit's core beliefs are shattered. The violence she had spent years covering abroad is now on her doorstep. As Kit struggles with her grief and confusion, she begins to mistrust those closest to her: her friends, her husband, even her own son.

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Review:

With unflinching realism and complicated, captivating characters, Steavenson tackles the turbulent realities of the war against terror.

This ultimately engrossing insider's view of complicated geopolitics and conflicted identity doesn't condescend to the reader, offering no simple pieties as it upends stereotypes.

Fascinating.--Louise Doughty

Accomplished and deftly plotted.--Benjamin Balint

[A] very fine novel. Deeply informed by the author's experiences as a journalist but triumphantly transmuted into intelligent and heartfelt fiction.

[An] expansive debut novel.... Powerfully merges the personal and the political.

Paris Metro is a love story between a Western journalist and an Iraqi diplomat that raises the biggest questions about war, religion, and the complicated relationship between the West and the Arab world. Wendell Steavenson has beautifully drawn vivid and convincing characters who will live forever in your imagination. It's not just a good novel, it is a significant piece of our life.--Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building

About the Author:

Wendell Steavenson, whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the Guardian, and Granta, is the author of three books of reporting. She was a 2014 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Born in New York, Steavenson lives in Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0393356795
• ISBN 13: 9780393356793
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384