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An urgent and enthralling new novel about injustice and betrayal from the author of Birdsong and A Week in December.
Set in 2006, Paris Echo follows Hannah, a thirty-one-year-old American post-doctoral researcher looking into the lives of women during the German Occupation of Paris in 1940-44, and Tariq, a nineteen-year-old boy who has run away from his home in Morocco, searching for sex and adventure.
Through their culture clash we are taken back into the hidden Paris of the Dark Years, the Algerian War and the simmering discontents of the banlieue. As both main characters fight to preserve their integrity and their sanity, they find their future shaped by the lives of the dead, by the ghosts of the Paris Metro. Shortlisted for the National Book Awards (UK)
A Times (UK) Best Book of 2018
A New Statesman Best Book of 2018
"Faulks immerses readers into a haunted Paris... Exhilarating... Fans of Paula McClain and Ian McEwan will enjoy Faulks's touching tale of two Parisian visitors looking to reimagine their self-identities in a changing world." —Publishers Weekly
"Briskly told and engaging... [Paris Echo] is an entertaining novel with memorable characters. A fun romp through Paris and history." —Kirkus Reviews
"Enveloping... Faulks offers a subtle but affecting portrait of friendship while exploring the immense difficulty of making sense of the larger world." —Booklist
"Superb." -The Observer (UK)
"[An] exquisite book... A deeply affecting, wholly unsolemn treatment of some of the 20th century's darkest moments" -Daily Mail (UK)
"Tariq is one of Mr. Faulks's most memorable charmers ... and Paris Echo, for all its tragedy, one of his most buoyant novels, flawlessly paced and deftly constructed. Here this agile writer ... moves gracefully back and forth between shadow and light, weaving together disparate stories but never too neatly." -The Wall Street Journal
"Both thoughtful and thought-provoking with memorable characters and a profound sense of the past in the present." -Sunday Express (UK)
"Faulks is doing what he does best." —The Times (UK)
"Paris Echo is another impressive achievement... There is humour and humanity in this bold, perceptive novel." -Express (UK)
"The prowess of [Faulks's] storytelling makes him a graceful guide through 'the great world of the past.' ... Cunningly crafted... France's unquiet histories are brought to life by a master storyteller." -Financial Times (UK)
"Master storytelling... [An] intriguing and moving story that shows how the future is shaped by the past." -Women & Home
"This is a deeply cinematic novel... Paris Echo is brimming with facts and hard truths about how people act during war that we could all benefit from knowing." -Evening Standard (UK)
"Romantic. Intriguing. Beguiling... Paris Echo takes readers to places tourists don't visit ... [and] is so intimately, so evocatively like Paris." —The Sunday Times (UK)
"Paris Echo does not disappoint... A stimulating read." —John Boyne, The Irish Times
"Here is Paris in all its beauty and squalor... Intelligent, moving... A love letter to Paris and indeed to France." —The Scotsman (UK) Sebastian Faulks worked as a journalist for 14 years before taking up writing full-time in 1991. In 1995 he was voted Author of the Year by the British Book Awards for Birdsong. He is also the author of Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Charlotte Gray, The Fatal Englishman, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Engleby, and the James Bond novel Devil May Care. He lives in London with his wife and three children. One
Maison Blanche
I was taking a pee in the bathroom when I caught sight of myself in the mirror. My face looked so beautiful that I turned to look more closely, spraying the tiles round the toilet in my hurry. I shook my zib and put it back inside my boxers so I could study my face. It was like someone
Set in 2006, Paris Echo follows Hannah, a thirty-one-year-old American post-doctoral researcher looking into the lives of women during the German Occupation of Paris in 1940-44, and Tariq, a nineteen-year-old boy who has run away from his home in Morocco, searching for sex and adventure.
Through their culture clash we are taken back into the hidden Paris of the Dark Years, the Algerian War and the simmering discontents of the banlieue. As both main characters fight to preserve their integrity and their sanity, they find their future shaped by the lives of the dead, by the ghosts of the Paris Metro. Shortlisted for the National Book Awards (UK)
A Times (UK) Best Book of 2018
A New Statesman Best Book of 2018
"Faulks immerses readers into a haunted Paris... Exhilarating... Fans of Paula McClain and Ian McEwan will enjoy Faulks's touching tale of two Parisian visitors looking to reimagine their self-identities in a changing world." —Publishers Weekly
"Briskly told and engaging... [Paris Echo] is an entertaining novel with memorable characters. A fun romp through Paris and history." —Kirkus Reviews
"Enveloping... Faulks offers a subtle but affecting portrait of friendship while exploring the immense difficulty of making sense of the larger world." —Booklist
"Superb." -The Observer (UK)
"[An] exquisite book... A deeply affecting, wholly unsolemn treatment of some of the 20th century's darkest moments" -Daily Mail (UK)
"Tariq is one of Mr. Faulks's most memorable charmers ... and Paris Echo, for all its tragedy, one of his most buoyant novels, flawlessly paced and deftly constructed. Here this agile writer ... moves gracefully back and forth between shadow and light, weaving together disparate stories but never too neatly." -The Wall Street Journal
"Both thoughtful and thought-provoking with memorable characters and a profound sense of the past in the present." -Sunday Express (UK)
"Faulks is doing what he does best." —The Times (UK)
"Paris Echo is another impressive achievement... There is humour and humanity in this bold, perceptive novel." -Express (UK)
"The prowess of [Faulks's] storytelling makes him a graceful guide through 'the great world of the past.' ... Cunningly crafted... France's unquiet histories are brought to life by a master storyteller." -Financial Times (UK)
"Master storytelling... [An] intriguing and moving story that shows how the future is shaped by the past." -Women & Home
"This is a deeply cinematic novel... Paris Echo is brimming with facts and hard truths about how people act during war that we could all benefit from knowing." -Evening Standard (UK)
"Romantic. Intriguing. Beguiling... Paris Echo takes readers to places tourists don't visit ... [and] is so intimately, so evocatively like Paris." —The Sunday Times (UK)
"Paris Echo does not disappoint... A stimulating read." —John Boyne, The Irish Times
"Here is Paris in all its beauty and squalor... Intelligent, moving... A love letter to Paris and indeed to France." —The Scotsman (UK) Sebastian Faulks worked as a journalist for 14 years before taking up writing full-time in 1991. In 1995 he was voted Author of the Year by the British Book Awards for Birdsong. He is also the author of Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Charlotte Gray, The Fatal Englishman, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Engleby, and the James Bond novel Devil May Care. He lives in London with his wife and three children. One
Maison Blanche
I was taking a pee in the bathroom when I caught sight of myself in the mirror. My face looked so beautiful that I turned to look more closely, spraying the tiles round the toilet in my hurry. I shook my zib and put it back inside my boxers so I could study my face. It was like someone