Disturbance. Surviving Charlie Hebdo

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Europa Editions
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: First Edition

Description: 473 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: WINNER PRIX FEMINA AND PRIX DU ROMAN NEWS A 2019 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Evening Standard New Statesman Lit Hub) Paris, January 7, 2015. Two terrorists who claim allegiance to ISIS attack the satirical weeklyCharlie Hebdo. The event causes untold pain to the victims and their families, prompts a global solidarity movement, and ignites a fierce debate over press freedoms and the role of satire today. Philippe LanĤon, a journalist, author, and a weekly contributor toCharlie Hebdo is gravely wounded in the attack. This intense life experience upends his relationship to the world, to writing, to reading, to love and to friendship. As he attempts to reconstruct his life on the page, LanĤon rereads Proust, Thomas Mann, Kafka, and others in search of guidance. It is a year before he can return to writing, a year in which he learns to work through his experiences and their aftermath. Disturbance is not an essay on terrorism nor is it a witnesss account ofCharlie Hebdo. The attack and what followed are part of LanĤons narrative, which, instead, touches upon the universal. It is an honest, intimate account of a man seeking to put his life back together after it has been torn apart. Disturbance is a book about survival, resilience, and reconstruction, about transformation, about one mans shifting relationship to time, to writing and journalism, to truth, and to his own body.

ISBN: 9781609455569