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Listen : A Novel by Sacha Bronwasser (2025, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100143138464
ISBN-139780143138464
eBay Product ID (ePID)4075302401
Product Key Features
Book TitleListen : a Novel
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicMystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / General
GenreFiction
AuthorSacha Bronwasser
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight7.4 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2025-005674
Reviews"Bronwasser makes the banal exceptional with an eye that not only looks but sees." -- Kirkus (starred review) "Cannily constructed and gracefully written, this thought-provoking literary thriller offers a charcuterie board's worth of rewards." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review), " Listen is a meticulously constructed yet unnervingly quiet thriller that stays under readers' skin from start to finish. [A] unique, twisty meditation on terrorism, art and the influence of various media on our lives. It's so compellingly well-crafted that it invites rereading to fully appreciate certain lines--and its devastating title--once all is revealed." -- BookPage (starred review) "Bronwasser makes the banal exceptional with an eye that not only looks but sees." -- Kirkus (starred review) "Cannily constructed and gracefully written, this thought-provoking literary thriller offers a charcuterie board's worth of rewards." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[Bronwasser] grabs her readers by the throat with a meticulously constructed and convincing story that gets under your skin from the very first page." -- De Telegraaf "Sacha Bronwasser describes Parisian life irresistibly, in a thought-provoking novel. It's a rare thing, a book that can be read as simply a 'good read' but with enough in it to make you think." -- de Volkskrant "A highly ingenious novel that is also moving . . . Listen is somewhat reminiscent of W.F. Hermans and Peter Terrin, with its sense of a stalkerish, indefinable foreboding, while the story is nevertheless resolute and evocative, and told in a way that definitely rewards the reader." -- NRC "Ingenious new novel . . . Masterfully constructed . . . A novel that you can only admire." -- Trouw "Once you understand the full, wry relevance of the title on the very last pages, only then do you fully realise how masterfully constructed this compelling book is. The skilfully written, suspenseful story turns out to be an intelligent and ambiguous reflection on remembering and recording, on seeing and being seen, on coincidence and makeability, and on the ethics of art and of the appropriation of other people's stories. The question that continues to haunt you at the end is to what extent the novel is an act of revenge and, as such, an example of the unethical appropriation it denounces. Good, clever, deep. Without question premier league, this novel." -- Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, author of Grand Hotel Europa
SynopsisA twisty, slow-burn mystery set in Paris and the Netherlands that has become a Dutch sensation In 1989, twenty-year-old Marie jumps at the chance to work as au pair in Paris--even though it means dropping out of her prestigious art program in the Netherlands. The city, the language, the complicated French family she works for all quickly overshadow the turmoil and pain she'd been reckoning with in school. But years later, during the 2015 attacks in Paris, Marie is shocked to recognize her former teacher, the main reason she fled the Netherlands, pictured in aftermath, in the exact arrondissement where her previous employers live. The past she was sure she could leave behind comes flooding back, as do the questions she thought she could live with leaving unanswered. Told in alternating voices, this "highly ingenious" (NRC) coming-of-age story asks important and haunting questiosn about the thin line between rememberign and recording, seeing and being seen, coincidence and fate, revenge and reclamation--and what it means to walk this boundary., In 1989, twenty-year-old Marie jumps at the chance to work as au pair in Paris-even though it means dropping out of her prestigious art programme in the Netherlands. The city, the language, the complicated French family she works for all quickly overshadow the turmoil and pain she'd been reckoning with in school. Even as her experiences with the family in Paris begin to echo the troubles left in the Netherlands, Marie pushes on. Years later, during the 2015 attacks in Paris, Marie is shocked to recognise her former teacher, and the main reason she fled the Netherlands, pictured in aftermath of the attacks, in the exact arrondissement where her previous employers live. The past she believed she's untethered from turns out to be be a knot still capable of constricting tightly around her. Can she face Paris-and what she ran away from to get to Paris-and finally disentangle herself from her past?
LC Classification NumberPT5882.12.R66L8513
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