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MERDE AT THE PARIS OLYMPICS IBD

PAF
11 / 2023
9782958566326
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Sinopsis

'Some really excellent one-liners and a great story.' Ian Moore, author, Death & Croissants.'This novel is hysterical!' Rebecca Leffler, writer and Creative Consultant on the Netflix TV series Emily in Paris,.By the author of A Year in the Merde and 1000 Years of Annoying the French.Englishman Paul West is living in Paris (where he arrived long before Emily, by the way) and heâÇÖs gearing up for the 2024 Olympics.Paul accepts a job with a French group who are campaigning to getápétanqueáadopted as an official Olympic event. In PaulâÇÖs opinion, throwing lumps of lead around while drinking pastis is barely a sport - itâÇÖs more an excuse for Provenúal men to avoid cooking dinner. But he needs the cash.Meanwhile Paul falls in love with a French tech genius - who thinks heâÇÖs an idiot (which, compared to her, he is) - and he tangles with his treacherous ex, Elodie.Paul also applies for French nationality and has to embark on a war of attrition with FranceâÇÖs Napoleonic bureaucrats.In the background, PaulâÇÖs friend Jake the grunge poet decides that the Olympics and Paralympics discriminate against lazy people, and invents the 'Nolympics'.Let the fun and games begin.

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