{"product_id":"books-the-black-notebook-by-patrick-modiano","title":"The Black Notebook","description":"\u003cb\u003eA writer's notebook becomes the key that unlocks memories of a love formed and lost in 1960s Paris.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the aftermath of Algeria's war of independence, Paris was a city rife with suspicion and barely suppressed violence. Amid this tension, Jean, a young writer adrift, met and fell for Dannie, an enigmatic woman fleeing a troubled past. A half century later, with his old black notebook as a guide, he retraces this fateful period in his life, recounting how, through Dannie, he became mixed up with a group of unsavory characters connected by a shadowy crime. Soon Jean, too, was a person of interest to the detective pursuing their case--a detective who would prove instrumental in revealing Dannie's darkest secret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Black Notebook \u003c\/i\u003ebears all the hallmarks of this Nobel Prize-winning literary master's unsettling and intensely atmospheric style, rendered in English by acclaimed translator Mark Polizzotti (\u003ci\u003eSuspended Sentences\u003c\/i\u003e). Once again, Modiano invites us into his unique world, a Paris infused with melancholy, uncertain danger, and the fading echoes of lost love.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53507966533905,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780544779822.jpg?v=1778138997","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-black-notebook-by-patrick-modiano","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}