Listen : a novel / Sacha Bronwasser ; translated by David Colmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bronwasser, Sacha, 1968- Author.

Contributor:

Colmer, David, 1960- translator.

Standardized Title:

Luister. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/e9972f35-bc6a-46d7-68a4-8a948e6e8ccc

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Au pairs--Fiction.

Au pairs.

Women college teachers--Fiction.

Women college teachers.

Betrayal--Fiction.

Betrayal.

Paris (France)--Fiction.

Paris (France).

Netherlands--Fiction.

Netherlands.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Detective and mystery fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

232 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2025]

Summary:

"A twisty, slow-burn mystery set in Paris and the Netherlands that has become a Dutch sensation"-- Provided by publisher.

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. 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 recognize 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?

Notes:

Translated from the Dutch.

Other Format:

Online version Bronwasser, Sacha, 1968- Listen

ISBN:

9780143138464

0143138464

OCLC:

1500017646