"Award-winning author Joseph Andras resurrects Ho Chi Minh's formative years in Paris. Searching for traces of the past in the streets of today, Andras hears echoes of other angry histories, from terror attacks to tent encampments to the protests of the Gilets jaunes. This intensely lyrical, genre-bending book is a meditation on what could be called the grandeur of the poor, the free, the outcast, and the rebellious"--
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"Award-winning author Joseph Andras resurrects Ho Chi Minh's formative years in Paris. Searching for traces of the past in the streets of today, Andras hears echoes of other angry histories, from terror attacks to tent encampments to the protests of the Gilets jaunes. This intensely lyrical, genre-bending book is a meditation on what could be called the grandeur of the poor, the free, the outcast, and the rebellious"--
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