Dédicace, Barbeton, 114 Rue Antoine Dansaert, Bruxelles 1000 @ 11h, vendredi 19 mai 2023. Réservations : info@bitbook.be

Ce guide de la ville est une lettre d'amour d'un écrivain irlandais Rua Breathnach to the cafés of Brussels: privileged spaces in the city where one finds a sense of belonging and the pleasure of watching life pass like a carnival before one's eyes. With blunt honesty and black humor, this fly-on-the-wall portrait captures the special atmosphere and culture of these homes away from home.

“I worked like a Trojan over the winter,” says the owner after a while, “and now the wife's at me. "Darling," she says. 'You're killing yourself. Why don't you take a little holiday?' For the first time in thirty years I've decided to shut the bar for a few days next week and go fishing in the Ardennes. It'll be strange thinking of this place locked up and empty.”

« C'est toujours fascinant d'entendre comment d'autres Bruxellois, venus des quatre coins du monde, regardent, écoutent et touchent ma ville natale… Bruxelles reste elle-même, imprévisible, anarchique, polyphonique. Ce livre dresse le portrait de cette ville qui s'évade sans cesse » - Geert van Istendael

“For the late great Flemish-Brussels poet and café lover Jan Van Nijlen (1884-1965), a bar was a home, a fatherland. Carnival is an exploration of this universe in carefully framed snapshots” - Pascal Verbeken

9789464077179 - 15 eur - 100 pages (disponible)