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  • Published: 9 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9781804944349
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $22.99
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Paris Echo




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'Superb' OBSERVER
'Cunningly crafted' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Faulks is doing what he does best’ SUNDAY TIMES

In the depths of the archive, Hannah dances with the ghosts of Vichy France, lost in testimony and a desire to hear the voices of the past. Back in her apartment, Moroccan teenager Tariq crashes on her sofa, consumed by his search for the mother he barely knew. Their excavations will unearth rich histories that will teach them both just how much the future is worth fighting for.

Paris Echo is a propulsive and haunting novel of empire and identity, told with biting wit and tenderness, which exposes the shadows of the city of lights.

‘[Paris Echo] is brimming with Faulks’s deep affection for Paris . . . and ambition to evoke that place, its ghostliness, those spectres of history, lurking around every beautiful avenue’ GUARDIAN

  • Published: 9 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9781804944349
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks’s books include A Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Engleby, Birdsong, A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.

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Praise for Paris Echo

[An] exquisite book... a deeply affecting, wholly unsolemn treatment of some of the 20th century's darkest moments.

Daily Mail

Superb... weaves winningly between the present and the second world war, between Tangiers and Paris.

Alex Preston, Observer

Master storytelling... [An] intriguing and moving story that shows how the future is shaped by the past.

Women & Home

Faulks excels at creating well-rounded characters.

Good Housekeeping

Paris Echo doesn’t disappoint… Faulks is doing what he does best, marrying careful historical research with a good ear for dialogue

Melissa Katsoulis, The Times

An intriguing guide to the many layers of Parisien life.

Anthony Gardner, Mail on Sunday

Both thoughtful and thought-provoking with memorable characters and a profound sense of the past in the present

Hannah Beckerman, S Magazine, Sunday Express

The prowess of his storytelling makes him a graceful guide through "the great world of the past"... Cunningly crafted, Faulks's fictional bridge between the French past and present has its sentimental side.

Financial Times

Paris Echo is an enjoyable and highly readable novel. Faulks has an easy-going style and he draws you seemingly without effort into the world he creates. He has a knowing humour too…In part the novel is a love letter to Paris, but it is also the latest product of Faulk’s long-standing and fascinating engagement with the devastating events of the 20th century.

Literary Review

There is humour and humanity in this bold, perceptive novel.

Daily Express

Here is Paris in all its beauty and squalor, its blood-stained history and its ability to instil in its lover a sense of the true sweetness of life. So this intelligent, moving, often disturbing novel is also really a love letter to Paris and indeed to France.

The Scotsman

Immersive

The Spectator

There is much to learn from Paris Echo about the city’s complex identity, and about the way we view the past.

Sunday Times

A lovely novel by a writer who lives and breathes France

Saga Magazine

This intelligent, moving, often disturbing novel is also really a love letter to Paris – and, indeed, to France

i paper

‘[Paris Echo is] brimming with Faulks’s deep affection for Paris. His outsider’s interest in quirky street names and quaint corners transports his readers there too. And in the end, the book is powered by his ambition to evoke that place, its ghostliness, those spectres of history, lurking around every beautiful avenue

Guardian

Faulks is a fine descriptive writer and evokes Paris splendidly

Daily Telegraph

A brilliantly plotted and occasionally hallucinatory novel, in which the author's genius for literary ventriloquism is shown off to startling effect.

New Statesman

Another terrific, intelligent read from Faulks

Reader's Digest