Disturbance

<p><strong>A moving and intimate account of survival, resilience, and reconstruction.</strong></p> <p>Paris. January 7, 2015, two terrorists attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Philippe Lan&ccedil;on, seriously wounded, was among the survivors.<br />This intense life experience upends his relationship to the world, to writing, to reading, to love and to friendship. It took him a year before he could return to writing, a year of frequent reconstructive surgeries, to work through his experiences and their aftermath. As he attempts to reconstruct his life on the page, Lan&ccedil;on rereads Proust, Thomas Mann, Kafka, and others in search of guidance and healing.<br />Disturbance is not an essay on terrorism nor is it a witness's account of Charlie Hebdo, and it's certainly not a "feel good book." The attack and what followed make up a small portion of Lan&ccedil;on's narrative, which instead seeks to provide the most honest and intimate reproduction possible of the interior experience of a man who was a victim, who suffered a "war wound" in a country "at peace."<br />Disturbance is a book about transformation, about one man's shifting relationship to time, to truth, and to his own body.</p>