"Cunningly crafted. . . . France's unquiet histories are brought
to life by a master storyteller." **--Financial Times (UK)
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A story of resistance, complicity, and an unlikely, transformative
friendship, set in Paris, from internationally bestselling novelist
Sebastian Faulks.
American historian Hannah intends to immerse herself in World War II
research in Paris, wary of paying much attention to the city where a
youthful misadventure once left her dejected. But a chance encounter
with Tariq, a Moroccan teenager whose visions of the City of Lights as a
world of opportunity and rebirth starkly contrast with her own, disrupts
her plan.
Hannah agrees to take Tariq in as a lodger, forming an unexpected
connection with the young man. Yet as Tariq begins to assimilate into
the country he risked his life to enter, he realizes that its dark past
and current ills are far more complicated than he'd anticipated. And
Hannah, diving deeper into her work on women's lives in Nazi-occupied
Paris, uncovers a shocking piece of history that threatens to dismantle
her core beliefs. Soon they each must question which sacrifices are
worth their happiness and what, if anything, the tumultuous past century
can teach them about the future.
From the sweltering streets of Tangier to deep beneath Paris via the
Metro, from the affecting recorded accounts of women in German-occupied
France and into the future through our hopes for these characters,
Paris Echo offers a tough and poignant story of injustices and dreams.
