Paris Echo

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Superb... weaves winningly between the present & the second world war, between Tangiers & 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 & Algeria. American postdoctoral researcher Hannah & 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, & through them her own, she finds a city bursting with clues & connections. Out in the migrant suburbs, Tariq is searching for a mother he barely knew. For him in his innocence, each boulevard, Métro station & street corner is a source of surprise. In this urgent & deeply moving novel, Faulks deals with questions of empire, grievance & identity. With great originality & 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