Vendredi 10 octobre à 17.30 : rencontre avec Andrew Hussey.

In his fascinating new book, « Fractured France », Andrew Hussey travels the length of his adopted homeland to uncover the past and present of the culture of the working class in France, a culture invisible to most tourists and ignored by the metropolitan classes.

From the industrial north to the southern borders with Italy, Hussey maps the mood of a nation, and reveals the social, political and economic fault lines that may only deepen and spread.

Combining vivid travel narrative and sharp cultural analysis, this will be a compulsively readable and important book.

Mardi 28 octobre à 17.30 : rencontre avec Matthew James Jones.

« Predators, reapers and deadlier creatures » tracks Jones, a drone operator stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 2010. As he monitors Sahar, a teenager and suspected terrorist, Jones commits the ultimate crime : he cares.

Jones’s supervisor is similarly stained, a fierce soldier who champions Afghan women. By day, Jones and the Major track Taliban down the cratered highways. By night, they wish their love had never hurt so many.

In Kandahar, there’s a monster in every window. And there’s also one in every mirror. As the war grinds him to ever-finer particles, Jones grapples with the toll-madness, craters, grief.

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