A Year in the Merde

"Highly entertaining," this comic novel about about an English man who moves to France "renders the flavor of life in Paris impeccably" (Washington Post).

A Year in the Merde is the almost-true account of an expat in Paris. The book is narrated by Paul West, a twenty-seven-year-old Brit who is brought to Paris by a French company to open a chain of British "tea rooms." He must manage of a group of lazy, grumbling French employees, maneuver around a treacherous Parisian boss, while lucking in...