{"product_id":"listen-paperback-5","title":"Listen - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSacha Bronwasser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Colmer\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of 2025 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA twisty, slow-burn mystery set in Paris and the Netherlands that has become a Dutch sensation \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold in alternating voices, this \"highly ingenious\" (NRC) coming-of-age story asks important and haunting questions about the thin line between remembering and recording, seeing and being seen, coincidence and fate, revenge and reclamation--and what it means to walk this boundary.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSacha Bronwasser\u003c\/b\u003e is a Dutch writer and art historian. For decades, she worked as art critic for De Volkskrant, while also curating exhibitions and writing and speaking about contemporary art for radio, television and on stage. In 2019, she made her fiction debut with the highly praised novel \u003ci\u003eNiets is Gelogen\u003c\/i\u003e, followed by the bestselling \u003ci\u003eLuister \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eListen\u003c\/i\u003e) in 2023 and the short story collection \u003ci\u003eDe Lotgevallen\u003c\/i\u003e in 2024. \u003ci\u003eListen \u003c\/i\u003ewas nominated for multiple literary awards, has been translated into several languages, and is currently being adapted into a feature film. Bronwasser lives on the Dutch coast. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Colmer\u003c\/b\u003e is the translator of more than eighty book-length works of Dutch-language literature and has won many prizes for his translations, including the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, both with novelist Gerbrand Bakker.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43496833810567,"sku":"9780143138464","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/9cSpfv4nMq9780143138464.webp?v=1763635960","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/listen-paperback-5","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}