Place du Paradis - Rentrée littéraire d'hiver 2024 | Xavier-Marie Bonnot

Place du Paradis - Rentrée littéraire d'hiver 2024

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Pages : 320

Size : 140 x 205 mm

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Paradise Square

Xavier-Marie Bonnot

Release date : 04/01/2024

Paradise Square is a harrowing novel of current events; a multi-narrative story about two people, different in every way, who could only be brought together by war.
An incisive account of a slow radicalization to terrorism. A story of hate and anger, but also tenderness, punctuated by the real testimonies of the defendants and victims of the November 13 Paris attacks.

Raqqa, 2017. Pierre, one of the most famous war photographers of his generation, follows French youth enrolled in the YPG, a Kurdish military group, during the seizing of the Islamic State’s capital. Their goal: to liberate Paradise Square, a highly symbolic site, Daesh’s torture spot, where hangings, decapitations, or crucifixions... Raqqa, 2017. Pierre, one of the most famous war photographers of his generation, follows French youth enrolled in the YPG, a Kurdish military group, during the seizing of the Islamic State’s capital. Their goal: to liberate Paradise Square, a highly symbolic site, Daesh’s torture spot, where hangings, decapitations, or crucifixions happened almost every day.
In the wreckage of a martyred city, Marie, a young French woman lost among shattered streets, has chosen to support the Islamic State, and is arrested by the YPG in front of the photographer’s lens. An unexpected bond forms between the thick-skinned journalist and the young woman. Pierre interrogates Marie before she is sent to the camps in northern Syria.
Five years later, when the trial for the November 13 Paris attacks begins, an examining magistrate summons Pierre. Marie, who has fled Syria, is in the hands of the French police. She is ready to cooperate with the law on one condition: they allow her to talk to Pierre. While the witnesses march to the stand for the November 13 attacks trial, in the close confines of a prison vising room, the photographer faces a broken woman, a character more complex than the one he had discovered in the streets of Raqqa…

Press review
“In this skilfully constructed, documented and captivating novel, Xavier-Marie Bonnot shakes up our certainties about these wars, which are coming ever closer to our borders, with profound intellectual honesty.” Béatrice Arvet, La semaine de Nancy
“A harsh, incisive, merciless, tetanizing tale, in the image of a life set ablaze.” Classiquetoulouse.fr
“An immense book that turns you upside down and makes you realize how small and ignorant the human condition really is.” Un bon livre à lire

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Pages : 320

Size : 140 x 205 mm

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