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Paris Echo, by British novelist Sebastian Faulks, is one of those rare books that takes complex issues and turns them into something simple and beautiful. Set mainly in Paris, Faulks’s novel gives us the story of a young Moroccan, Tariq, and Hannah, an American academic. They meet by chance and end up sharing a flat for a brief time. Tariq is new to Paris. He has come to escape Morocco, at least for a time. Hannah knows Paris well, but she, too, is trying to escape her past. Paris becomes a player in the biographie­s of both characters, helping them to understand not only themselves, but also the historical processes that are part of all our lives. The city has never looked more attractive than through the eyes of two people willing to take such a journey. Hutchinson, €13.29. brief [bri:f] kurz

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