"Erwan Larher was enjoying a rock concert in Paris' Bataclan Theater on November 13, 2015, when the firing started. In this genre-bending, deeply moving and unexpected memoir, Larher reflects on what the gruesome terror attack meant to him and to others. The Book I Didn't Want to Write transcends bearing witness. Larher's voice is intertwined with others--his partner, his father, the two friends who were going to come but didn't--to create a deeply moving collective chronicle of the most violent night in French history since World War II. He recounts not only how such an act affected him and his loved ones, but the thousands who lived through that night, the millions who followed the event through media, and even the attackers themselves."--Amazon.com.

"First published in France under the title Le livre que je ne voulais pas écrire."--Title page verso.