An Inconvenient Place

‘A narrative, both arduous and luminous, that takes every possible route through a history mired in tragedy.’
— Télérama

‘What makes this powerful book so impressive is that it confronts everything – to the point of veering off course, of travelling far back into the past, of accumulating the twists, the strata, of narrative, image and investigation. At once a historical study, a testimony of the events unfolding as you read these lines, an inquiry into war crimes and a remembrance of the dead, it comes as close as possible to what its authors came to seek in the streets of Ukraine.’
— Le Monde

‘An important chronicle of the enigma of violence and evil, and the tragedy of the Ukrainian people.’
— France Inter

‘Littell and d’Agata, true aesthetes of disaster, document the history of the violence that stalks the fate of the Ukrainian people, now terrorized by the Russian army. The beauty of the book, embedded in its very tragedy, lies in its way – at once delicate and direct – of placing the ashes of this blood-streaked land into a literary urn, where nothing is forgotten, where everything captures the appalled gaze.’
— Les Inrockuptibles

‘A singular and disturbing work that ties text to image… An Inconvenient Place examines the war in Ukraine and draws its power from the interplay between the words of writer Jonathan Littell and the haunting images of photographer Antoine d’Agata.’
— L’Obs

‘Littell excels at saying the unsayable, almost to a fault. An Inconvenient Place demands attentive reading; it battles against silence and oblivion.’
— Le Figaro Littéraire