by Gilles Perrault · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020591911
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«Jours tranquilles à Belleville» is Thierry Jonquet's chronicle, with a foreword by Gilles Perrault, in paperback (176 pages, in French).
The book portrays daily life in Belleville, a working-class and multicultural district of Paris, and the progressive decay of its social fabric: poverty and racism increase, insecurity becomes tangible. With an insolent and far from politically correct tone, Jonquet delivers an uncompromising portrait of that urban corner.
The original edition was published by Méréal in 1999; this Points paperback edition is from 2003, with a foreword by Gilles Perrault and an afterword by the author.
A read for those interested in social chronicle, working-class Paris, and the transformation of urban neighbourhoods.
Thierry Jonquet was a French writer who specialised in crime novels with political themes. He was born in Paris; his most recent and best known novel outside France was Mygale (1984), then published in the US in 2003 by City Lights. Mygale was also published in the UK as Tarantula in 2005. He wrote over 20 novels in French, including Le bal des débris, Moloch and Rouge c'est la vie.
