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The first nonfiction book by international bestselling novelist Michel Faber, an eye-opening exploration into how we listen to music and why it matters, in the tradition of Oliver Sackss Musicophilia and Daniel Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music

This book is, at its core, about music and the people who listen to ityour friends, your neighbors, and you.

A fresh approach towards our cultural and sensical relationship to sound, this melodic examination of the world of music explores two big questions: how do we listen to music and why do we listen to it in the first place? From a range of factors that shape our experience of soundbiology, age, illness, and moreListen challenges the very dichotomy between good and bad music.

Lyrically woven and deeply evocative, Michel Fabers non-fiction debut reflects his lifelong passion for music of all kinds. Listen will change your relationship with the heard world.