Résumé
A Times Fiction Book of the Year'Superb . . . weaves winningly between the present and the second world war, between Tangiers and Paris.' ObserverHere is Paris as you have never seen it before – a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria.American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both are susceptible to the daylight ghosts of Paris. Hannah listens to the extraordinary witness of women who were present under the German Occupation; in her desire to understand their lives, and through them her own, she finds a city bursting with clues and connections. Out in the migrant suburbs, Tariq is searching for a mother he barely knew. For him in his innocence, each boulevard, Métro station and street corner is a source of surprise. In this urgent and deeply moving novel, Faulks deals with questions of empire, grievance and identity. With great originality and a dark humour, Paris Echo asks how much we really need to know if we are to live a valuable life.‘Faulks captures the voice of a century’ Sunday Times‘The most impressive novelist of his generation’ Sunday Telegraph
Quatrième de couverture
'Superb . . . weaves winningly between the present and the second world war, between Tangiers and Paris.' Observer
Here is Paris as you have never seen it before - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria.
American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both are susceptible to the daylight ghosts of Paris. Hannah listens to the extraordinary witness of women who were present under the German Occupation; in her desire to understand their lives, and through them her own, she finds a city bursting with clues and connections. Out in the migrant suburbs, Tariq is searching for a mother he barely knew. For him in his innocence, each boulevard, Métro station and street corner is a source of surprise.
In this urgent and deeply moving novel, Faulks deals with questions of empire, grievance and identity. With great originality and a dark humour, Paris Echo asks how much we really need to know if we are to live a valuable life.
Biographie de l'auteurSebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks’s books includeA Possible Life,Human Traces,On Green Dolphin Street,Engleby,Birdsong,A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.
À propos de l'auteur
Faulks, Sebastian
Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks’s books includeA Possible Life,Human Traces,On Green Dolphin Street,Engleby,Birdsong,A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.
Fiche technique
- Titre : Paris Echo
- Auteur : Faulks, Sebastian
- Langue : Anglais
- Format : Broché
- Nombre de pages : 352
- Genre : Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)
- Date de publication : 01-06-2019
- Édition : Vintage
- Poids : 0.1649999720708087 kg
- Dimensions : 10.999978 x 1.8999962 x 17.7999644 cm
- ISBN-10 : 1784704083
- ISBN-13 : 9781784704087
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