Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays he visits two of the world's greatest cities at crucial moments in their history to meditate on the condition of exile in both geographical and psychic space: the Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice,; and nineteenth-century Paris.
'An achingly immediate, sensuous and psychologically acute novel about a man whose life has been suspended by the madness of American politics' - Siri Hustvedt
