eandrews80 's review for:

A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke

3.0

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Paul West is an English businessman who is sent to live and work in Paris for a year. Each chapter details a month of his new life, and as the book centers on observing (and skewering) French language and culture, it reads a bit like a work of creative non-fiction. The plot is rather thin, but much of the book is laugh-out-loud funny, and as Clarke himself is a British ex-pat living in France, I have to assume that the observations are fairly well-informed. I'm glad I speak French, as every page is sprinkled with often-untranslated French dialogue, but I think you could get by if you don't speak it.