"I wanted to do something with Paris because I thought that it was such a generous city." Jérémie Guez talks about what compelled him to write his noir novel set in contemporary Paris. Eyes Full of Empty (Unnamed Press, 2015), translated from the French by Edward Gauvin, is the first of Guez's books to appear in English.
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