Listen

A foreign city, a foreign language, new people, a new job

Listen, Sacha Bronwasser's second novel, takes the reader to Paris in the 1980s and the present day, on a deceptive journey of searching for one's own identity, exploring the nature of friendship, and resolving questions of guilt and possible forgiveness. In 1989, twenty-one-year-old Marie flees the Netherlands. In Paris, she starts working as an au pair. A foreign city, a foreign language, new people, a new job – she's starting completely from scratch in every respect, performing a thorough restart of her life. What does a person do when they have to get back on their feet? They write. Only half a lifetime later does Marie's story reach Flo, the reason Marie had to run away all those years ago. But Flo can no longer read it. All she can do is listen…