TY - BOOK AU - Assef,Katie Shireen AU - Ball,Nicole AU - Ball,David AU - Delouche,Hervé AU - Daw,Paul Curtis TI - Paris noir: the suburbs T2 - French voices SN - 9781617757556 PY - 2022///] CY - Brooklyn, New York PB - Akashic Books KW - Detective and mystery stories, French KW - Translations into English KW - Short stories, French KW - Noir fiction, French KW - Paris (France) KW - Fiction KW - lcgft KW - Short stories N1 - Translated from the French N2 - From the introduction by Herv? Delouche: The term Greater Paris is in vogue today, for it has an administrative cachet and seems to denote a simple extension of the capital?as if a ravenous Paris need only extend her web. However, it was not our goal to embrace the tenets of the metro area?s comprehensive plan, aka the Grand Projet, envisioned as a future El Dorado by the planners and developers. Rather, our aim was to depict the Parisian suburbs in all their plurality and diversity. Without pretending to encompass every spot on the map, we instead opted to give voice and exposure to the localities chosen by the writers who have been part of this adventure. Thus, we decided to adopt the word "suburbs"? in the plural, obviously, for the periphery of the capital is not a homogeneous bloc, nor is it reducible to a clich? like "the suburban ring" . . . Here are thirteen stories, decidedly noir, to be savored without sugar or sweetener ER -