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28 Paradises by Patrick Modiano / Dominique Zehrfuss
Category: Poetry | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
28 Paradises is a rare book: it reveals not only the individual talents of the authors, Modiano and Zehrfuss, but also the depth of the couple's creative union. Sensitively translated into English for the first time by Damion Searls, 28 Paradises captures the exquisite sadness of waking from a beautiful ...Show more
A Bookshop in Berlin - The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel; Patrick Modiano (Preface by)
Category: Fiction
A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK WINNER OF THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE "A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever--and a reminder, in our own troubled era, never to forget." --People An "exceptional" (The Wall Street Journal) and "poignant" (The New York Times) book in the tradition of redisco ...Show more
A Bookshop in Berlin - The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel; Patrick Modiano (Preface by)
Category: Biography
A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK WINNER OF THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE "A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever--and a reminder, in our own troubled era, never to forget." --People An "exceptional" (The Wall Street Journal) and "poignant" (The New York Times) book in the tradition of redisco ...Show more
After the Circus: A Novel by Patrick Modiano
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano's writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance. In this evocative novel the internationally acclaimed author takes up one of his most compelling themes: a love aff ...Show more
Catherine Certitude by Patrick Modiano
Category: Junior Fiction
A classic French story from Nobel Prize-winner Patrick Modiano and celebrated illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé. Beautifully illustrated, this is a love letter to Paris, ballet and childhood for fans of The Little Prince, Le Petit Nicholas and Madeline. Catherine lives with her gentle father, Georges Cer ...Show more
Catherine Certitude by Patrick Modiano
Category: Junior Fiction
A classic French story from Nobel Prize-winner Patrick Modiano and celebrated illustrator Jean-Jacques SempU. Beautifully illustrated, this is a love letter to Paris, ballet and childhood for fans of The Little Prince, Le Petit Nicholasand Madeline. Catherine lives with her gentle father, Georges Certit ...Show more
Catherine Certitude by PATRICK MODIANO
Category: Junior Fiction
This charming book will delight any child — or adult — who appreciates ballet, Paris, New York, childhood, and mystery (not necessarily in that order). The book's plot is deceptively simple: Catherine, the eponymous heroine, begins her story watching her own daughter demonstrate jazz steps in their ball ...Show more
Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano
Category: Fiction
2014 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Patrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal columns of the New Year's Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir. Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl, Dora Bruder, who had run away from her Catholic boa ...Show more
Family Record by Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
An enthralling reflection on the ways that family history influences identity, from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature A mix of autobiography and lucid invention, this highly personal work offers a deeply affecting exploration of the meaning of identity and pedigree. With his signature blend of cand ...Show more
Honeymoon by Patrick Modiano
Category: Fiction
Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, constructs "a haunting tale of quiet intensity" (Review of Contemporary Fiction). It parallels the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and career to hole up in a Paris hotel, with that of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he'd met ...Show more
In the Cafe of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano
Category: Fiction
Four narrators, a student from a cafe, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. The daughter of a single mother who works in the Moulin Rouge, Louki grows up in poverty in Montmar ...Show more
In the Cafe of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano
Category: Fiction
Four narrators, a student from a cafe, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. The daughter of a single mother who works in the Moulin Rouge, Louki grows up in poverty in Montmart ...Show more