The author was gravely wounded in the 2015 terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo .
Disturbance is a book about survival, resilience, and reconstruction, about transformation, about one man\'s shifting relationship to time, to writing and journalism, to truth, and to his own body..
It is an honest, intimate account of a man seeking to put his life back together after it has been torn apart.
The attack and what followed are part of Lan on\'s narrative, which, instead, touches upon the universal.
Disturbance is not an essay on terrorism nor is it a witness\'s account of Charlie Hebdo .
It is a year before he can return to writing, a year in which he learns to work through his experiences and their aftermath.
As he attempts to reconstruct his life on the page, Lan on rereads Proust, Thomas Mann, Kafka, and others in search of guidance.
This intense life experience upends his relationship to the world, to writing, to reading, to love and to friendship.
Philippe Lan on, a journalist, author, and a weekly contributor to Charlie Hebdo is gravely wounded in the attack.
The event causes untold pain to the victims and their families, prompts a global solidarity movement, and ignites a fierce debate over press freedoms and the role of satire today.
Two terrorists who claim allegiance to ISIS attack the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo .
WINNER PRIX FEMINA AND PRIX DU ROMAN NEWS A 2019 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ( Evening Standard ・ New Statesman ・ Lit Hub ) Paris, January 7, 2015.
This work is an honest, intimate account of a man seeking to put his life back together after it has been torn apart.
The author was gravely wounded in the 2015 terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo
