Sebastian Faulks | Paris Echo
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks is a haunting, deeply layered novel about memory, identity and the echoes of history that continue to shape the present. American researcher Hannah comes to Paris to study the testimonies of women who lived through the German Occupation, uncovering personal stories that reveal a city filled with hidden connections and unresolved memories. Meanwhile, Tariq, a teenage runaway from Morocco, experiences Paris for the first time while searching for traces of the mother he barely knew.
As their journeys unfold, the city itself becomes a powerful presence, carrying the shadows of occupation, Vichy France, colonialism and France's complicated relationship with North Africa. Moving between personal memory and collective history, Faulks explores how the past survives within places and people, and how questions of empire, migration and belonging continue to resonate across generations. Thoughtful, moving and touched with dark humour, Paris Echo is both a portrait of an extraordinary city and a meditation on how much we need to understand the past in order to live fully in the present.
- • Publisher / Imprint: Vintage
• Language: English
• Cover: Soft (Paperback)
• Release date: June 13, 2019.
• Number of pages: 298
• Dimensions: 198 × 129 × 19 mm
• Weight: 223 g
• Original release: 2018
• Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Historical Novel, WWII Literature






