Down with the Poor!

By Shumona SinhaTranslated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ‘Through the poetic force of her writing, Sinha brings a broken world to burning point.’ —Le Monde Publication Date: July 18, 2023 Paperback: 9781646052134eBook: 9781646052394 Description Over the course of a night in police custody, a young woman tries to understand the rage that led her to assault a refugee on the Paris metro. She too is a foreigner, now earning a living as an interpreter for asylum seekers in the outskirts of the city. Down With the Poor!, which borrows its title from a poem by Baudelaire. is the story of a woman who, little by little, is contaminated by the violence of the world. Biographical Note Born in 1973 in Calcutta, Shumona Sinha is a French Academy award-winning author for her contribution to the French language and literature (2014) and a naturalized French citizen who has lived in Paris since 2001. Her harsh but multilayered poetical literary reckoning with France’s asylum system, Down with the Poor!, wa