Author: Frederic Beigbeder
Translator: Yong-taek Han
Publisher: Munhaksasangsa
328 pages | 210*148mm
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About This Book
"You know how it ends: everybody dies." Thus begins Beigbeder's gripping
apocalyptic novel, which takes place on September 11, 2001 - the date on which
New York realtor Carthew Yorston has taken his seven- and nine-year-old sons for
a long-promised breakfast at the eponymous eatery atop the North Tower of the
World Trade Center. Alternating with Smith's narration is the voice of Beigbeder
himself - or a thinly disguised version of the French author - musing about the
tragedy one year later over his own breakfast in Le Ciel de Paris, on the 56th
floor of the Tour Montparnasse, the tallest building in Paris. Each chapter of
the novel represents one minute on that fateful morning, from 8:30 to 10:29;
nearly all are less than three pages, and several prove startling in their
brevity ("In the Windows, the few remaining survivors intone Irving Berlin's
'God Bless America' (1939)"). Both men riff on everything from trivia to
politics and make often poignant philosophical observations. Abundant doses of
gallows humor at once add levity and underscore the drama. Yorston's overheard
snatches of fatuous cell-phone conversations, for example, would be funny in
another context, while the enforced exit of a cigar-smoking guest at Windows on
the World "thereby proves that a cigar can save your life." Though some readers
may be put off by this novel's subject matter, Beigbeder invests his narrators
with such profound humanity that the book is far more than a litany of
catastrophe: it is, on all levels, a stunning read.
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