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Patrick Modiano
One of the great novels of Paris, from the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
‘I am nothing. Nothing but a pale shape, silhouetted that evening against the…
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Originally published in French as Une jeunesse. –Title page verso.
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Patrick Modiano, Mark Polizzotti (trans.)
A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation
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A haunting novel that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano
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Alan Morris
This volume focuses on developments within national literature and in movements cutting across frontiers through the study of Patrick Modiano.
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A haunting novel about lost youth, the search for identity and the fleetingness of time, by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature Patrick Modiano.
Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in his tenth book published by Yale University Press
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 2014 Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder - a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in an old December 1941 issue of Paris…
A mesmerizing novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, now superbly translated for English-language readers
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A trio of intertwined novellas from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature
The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano: a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and fragmented sensations
Akane Kawakami
The most up-to-date and comprehensive critical study of Nobel Prize winning author Patrick Modiano.
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Francoise Frenkel
'An astonishing memoir... as gripping as any thriller,' -Sunday Times
'Utterly compelling, at once painful and exquisite,' - Philippe Sands, author of East West Street
In 1921, Franoise Frenkel -…
In this strange, elegant novel, winner of France’s premier literary prize, Patrick Modiano portrays a man in pursuit of the identity he lost in the murky days of the Paris…
Paris, 1960. Poets, situationists, and students gather at the Cafe Conde. Despite the nostalgia, Modiano gives us a mystery novel about the enigmatic Louki, the daughter of a Moulin Rouge…
On the outskirts of Paris, one finds the Valvert boarding school, where pupils are sons of chance and from nowhere. Friendships are forged eventually untied by time. Many years later…
The three heroines of these stories are unknown even to themselves. They want to break from the boring present and embark on an uncertain future. The first hasnt gotten the…
Paris, October 1942. A couple meets during the city’s occupation. Hes Jewish; she’s Belgian. They marry and have two children; one of them is Patrick Modiano. They lived for twenty…
Paris, 1960. Damn poets, situationists and students gather at the Caf Cond. Despite the nostalgia of those lost years, Modiano gives us a mystery novel about the enigmatic Louki, the…
The early sixties. A young man under the identity of Count Victor Chmara hides from the horror of the French-Algerian war in a small town. Chmara meets Yvonne, a young…
This volume collects the first three novels of a key author of contemporary French literature. Three novels that received numerous awards: they represent brilliant novels, social complicity, organized crime, and…
Almost 35 years old, Odile and Louis live in a valley full of firs, a red cable car, and a ski station among the mountains. When they were young they…
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With the simple, melodious prose of a born storyteller and the spare intensity that has become his trademark, Modiano constructs an existential tale of suspense and longing, and of the…
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Jean Bosmans, an apprentice writer, meets Margaret Le Coz by chance. Years later, the protagonist of the novel questions whether the words exhcanged during their first encounter have faded into…
In The Herb of the Nights, Modiano invites us, as in his other novels, to a dramatic journey, this time through a spectral Paris. The city is configured as an…
Jean Darangane, narrating as a seventy-year-old man but also as his ten-year-old self, and then twenty years afterwards, reveals a path of memories, some blurred, some as clear as a…
Jimmy Sarano lives in a Mediterranean city in a self-imposed exile. He writes serialized novels for Radio Mundial, a small radio station with a big name. His life is all…
Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, constructs a haunting tale of quiet intensity ; (Review of Contemporary Fiction). It tells the story of Jean B., a filmmaker…
Guy Roland is a man without a past or a memory. He worked for eight years in the detective agency of Baron Constantin von Hutte, has just retired and begins…
Memory does not follow a chronological order: it goes forward and backward. This third volume of My Struggle is narrated in this way, with spasmodic accuracy that results in a…
In a Paris somewhere between reality, memories, and daydream, a young man encounters several enigmatic women. The corpse of a man appears, apparently accidentally killed by one by one of…
The young Dominique rehearses her role as Nina in Chekhov’s The Seagull, accompanied by her boyfriend Jean, an aspiring writer. They are both twenty and in full learning of life…
Reknowned French writer Patrick Modiano elegantly reflects upon the legacies of loss in this moving book. After coming across a personal ad inquiring about the whereabouts of a lost 15-year-old…
The first novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, which with The Night Watch and Ring Roads forms a trilogy of the Occupation
‘A Marcel Proust…
Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano’s first three novels, about Paris under Nazi occupation, now in a single volume; the earliest–La Place de l'Etoile–in English for the first time.
From the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, a haunting novel of suspense in which a single, unexpected phone call to a man living quietly in Paris launches…
