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From Publishers Weekly Rarely has the City of Light seemed grittier than in this hard-boiled short story anthology, part of Akashic's noir series that began in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir . The 12 freshly penned pulp fictions by some of France's most prominent practitioners play out in a kind of darker, parallel universe to the tourist mecca; visitors cross these pages at their peril, like the hapless hunk taken captive in Chantal Pelletier's kinky The Chinese Guy. As is usual for such volumes, the quality varies considerably among the selections made by Masson, young editor of Gallimard's Série Noire, but it's worth fast-forwarding through the few duds for direct hits like Christophe Mercier's Christmas, the poignant tale of a pair of doomed lovers on a snowy night in Pigalle, or Dominique Mainard's La Vie en Rose, in which a Piaf-worthy tragedy unfolds amid her old haunts in Belleville. Bull's-eye. (Nov.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist The most uneven of the international entries in the series, Paris Noir brings together a collection of bleak and violent stories that attempt to show the dark side of the C

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Author

Aurélien Masson

Publisher

Akashic Books : Made available through hoopla

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781936070404

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Mystery, Romance, Fiction

Rating

2.85 / 5 (52 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14