Publisher's Synopsis
'...a novel as singular in its subject matter as in its language and unbridled energy…. Through the poetic force of her writing, Sinha brings a broken world to burning point.’ - Marc Weitzmann, Le Monde
Over the course of a night in police custody, a young woman tries to understand the rage that led her to assault a refugee on the Paris metro. She too is a foreigner, now earning a living as an interpreter for asylum seekers in the outskirts of the city. Down with the poor! which borrows its title from a poem by Baudelaire is the story of a woman who, little by little, is contaminated by the violence of the world.
