by Frédéric Beigbeder · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070314614
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«Windows on the World» is the novel by Frédéric Beigbeder, published by Folio in paperback (367 pages, in French).
It reconstructs the last 110 minutes of a father and his two sons in the Windows on the World restaurant, on the 107th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, during the attacks of September 11, 2001. Beigbeder invents what happened between 8:30 and 10:29 and interweaves that fiction with the author's personal memories.
Winner of the Prix Interallié 2003. The paperback edition dates from 2005, in the Folio collection.
It is aimed at readers of contemporary fiction interested in French fiction and a literary look at 9/11.
Frédéric Beigbeder is a French writer, literary critic and television presenter. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel Windows on the World and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book A French Novel. He is also the creator of the Flore and Sade Awards. In addition, he is the executive director of Lui, a French adult entertainment magazine.
