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Biographical note
Simon Kuper is an author and Financial Times journalist, born in Uganda and raised around the world. An Oxford graduate, he later attended Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar. He has written for the Guardian, Observer, and The Times and is also the author of Chums, The Happy Traitor, Football Against the Enemy and Barça. He lives in Paris with his familyHighly readable and amusing ... Kuper is a charming guide
New Statesman
Next time you travel to the former City of Light, take this book
Independent
An absorbing, affectionate, acutely observed, cliché-free study of contemporary Paris
Irish Times
A persuasive defence of the very idea of a city... a reminder of the countless ways in which urban life remains one of the few efficient vaccines against bigotry and toxic nationalism
Washington Post
A portrait of Parisian society ... the style is elegant and flinty, the humour dry
- Andrew Martin, Literary Review
One of the best books about Paris... deftly debunks the alarmist narratives [to] reveal a city of tolerance and nuance
Foreign Affairs
Kuper has the journalist's touch of rendering clichés less clichéd and giving the personal a hint of universalism
Times Literary Supplement
[A] revealing memoir ... Kuper is a clear-eyed observer of all the history that is happening all around him
Observer
Informative and enlightening with a sarcastic touch... puts us on the streets themselves and lets us mingle
Los Angeles Review of Books
With a dry wit and a journalist's eye, Kuper unravels the layered past and looks to the future
Kirkus Review
A lively read that captures many of the capital's contradictions
Economist
With the perspective of a foreigner, and two decades as a Paris resident behind him, Kuper chronicles the paradoxical complexities of Parisian life in his memoir
- 'Best summer books of 2024', Financial Times
Simon Kuper does a great job in conveying why Paris is a city that is impossible to embrace and impossible to resist ... very funny
Irish Examiner
A must-read for admirers of the City of Light
- Mark Brocklesby, Jersey Evening Post
Praise for Chums:
'A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It matters
- Matthew Parris,
A gripping read ... exquisite and depressing in equal measure
- Matthew Syed, Sunday Times
A sparkling firework of a book
- Lynn Barber, Spectator
Incisive, insightful and timely
- Richard Beard, New Statesman
Fascinating ... The picture Kuper draws is of a nation with a decadent and deeply unprofessional ruling class, a diagnosis with which it is impossible to disagree
- Hugo Rifkind, The Times