On Music, Sound and Us

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 Sacks’s 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 it–your 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 sound—biology, age, illness, and more—Listen challenges the very dichotomy between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ music.

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