A newly translated novella from award-winning author Joseph Andras - an intensely lyrical, genre-bending meditation on the poor, the free, the outcast, and the rebellious. Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War I was sputtering to a close. A painfully shy twentysomething who stammered when he spoke in public, he joined the shadowy figures of the demimonde, the radicals, poor artists, sex workers, the luckless, and rebellious. PSearching for traces of the past in the streets of today, Joseph Andras hears echoes of other angry histories, from terror attacks to tent encampments to the protests of the gilets jaunes. This genre-bending book is a meditation on the people who might not find a place in history books but without whom history could not be written. JOSEPH ANDRAS is the author of the novels Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us and Ainsi nous leur faisons la guerre. Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us was adapted for the cinema (as Faithful) by Hélier Cisterne and was awarded the Prix Goncourt for a first novel. Andras refused the prize, explaining his belief that "competition and rivalry were foreign to writing and creation." He lives in Le Havre. “Joseph Andras writes with the swiftness of lightning." -Viet Thanh Nguyen

ISBN: 9781804291719