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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Patrick Modiano , Euan CameronPublisher: Quercus Publishing Imprint: MacLehose Press Dimensions: Width: 13.10cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.90cm Weight: 0.118kg ISBN: 9780857055286ISBN 10: 0857055283 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 12 January 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThose familiar with Modiano will recognise his themes, his settings, his characters. Yet there is never any repetition, or sense of d j vu. Rather the sentiment that nothing is mere chance. -- Norbert Czarney Quinzaine Litteraire Some novels, the more precious and necessary, render their readers more vulnerable, disarmed and fragile. And such is the case with this deeply moving portrait of a woman so familiar, and yet so lost, drawn by Modiano at the exact border between shadow and light. -- Patrick Kechichian Le Monde As beautiful as a tragic song... -- Jerome Garcin Nouvel Observateur Those familiar with Modiano will recognise his themes, his settings, his characters. Yet there is never any repetition, or sense of d j vu. Rather the sentiment that nothing is mere chance. Quinzaine Litteraire Patrick Modiano is certainly the greatest contemporary French novelist. A magnetic novel, set in a magical Paris ... A new precious stone. Lire Some novels, the more precious and necessary, render their readers more vulnerable, disarmed and fragile. And such is the case with this deeply moving portrait of a woman so familiar, and yet so lost, drawn by Modiano at the exact border between shadow and light. Le Monde As beautiful as a tragic song... Nouvel Observateur Those familiar with Modiano will recognise his themes, his settings, his characters. Yet there is never any repetition, or sense of deja vu. Rather the sentiment that nothing is mere chance. -- Norbert Czarney Quinzaine Litteraire Some novels, the more precious and necessary, render their readers more vulnerable, disarmed and fragile. And such is the case with this deeply moving portrait of a woman so familiar, and yet so lost, drawn by Modiano at the exact border between shadow and light. -- Patrick Kechichian Le Monde As beautiful as a tragic song... -- Jerome Garcin Nouvel Observateur Those familiar with Modiano will recognise his themes, his settings, his characters. Yet there is never any repetition, or sense of deja vu. Rather the sentiment that nothing is mere chance. Quinzaine Litteraire Patrick Modiano is certainly the greatest contemporary French novelist. A magnetic novel, set in a magical Paris ... A new precious stone. Lire Some novels, the more precious and necessary, render their readers more vulnerable, disarmed and fragile. And such is the case with this deeply moving portrait of a woman so familiar, and yet so lost, drawn by Modiano at the exact border between shadow and light. Le Monde As beautiful as a tragic song... Nouvel Observateur Those familiar with Modiano will recognise his themes, his settings, his characters. Yet there is never any repetition, or sense of deja vu. Rather the sentiment that nothing is mere chance. - Quinzaine Litteraire Some novels, the more precious and necessary, render their readers more vulnerable, disarmed and fragile. And such is the case with this deeply moving portrait of a woman so familiar, and yet so lost, drawn by Modiano at the exact border between shadow and light. - Le Monde As beautiful as a tragic song... - Nouvel Observateur Patrick Modiano is certainly the greatest contemporary French novelist. A magnetic novel, set in a magical Paris ... A new precious stone. - Lire Author InformationPatrick Modiano was born in Paris, France in 1945. He was the recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He previously won the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for Rue des boutiques obscures, and the 1972 Grand Prix du roman de l'Academie fran aise for Les Boulevards de ceinture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |