So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
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So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano
"Modiano is an ideal writer to gorge on . . . A moody, delectable noir." -- The New Yorker"The best kind of mystery, the kind that never stops haunting you." -- Entertainment Weekly
"A work of melancholic beauty . . . Sincere, shattering, magnificent." -- L'Express
In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary but irresistibly curious. Almost at once, he finds himself entangled with a shady gambler and a beautiful, fragile young woman, who draw Daragane into the mystery of a decades-old murder. The investigation will force him to confront the memory of a trauma he had all but buried. This masterly novel penetrates the deepest enigmas of identity and compels us to ask whether we ever know who we truly are.
"Moody . . . Lyrical . . . A pleasure." -- Kirkus Reviews
"A writer unlike any other and a worthy recipient of the Nobel." -- Wall Street Journal
PATRICK MODIANO was born in a suburb of Paris in 1945 and grew up in various parts of France. Since then, he's authored twenty novels, including the Goncourt Prize-winning Missing Person, Dora Bruder, and Les Boulevards des ceintures (translated as Ring Roads), as well as the memoir Un Pedigree and a children's book, Catherine Certitude. In the screenplay for the film Lacombe Lucien, he collaborated with Louis Malle. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014. The Swedish Academy dubbed him a modern-day Marcel Proust for his use of memory to conjure the most unfathomable human fates and unveil the life-world of the Occupation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780544811867 |
| ISBN 10 | 0544811860 |
| Title | So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood |
| Author | Patrick Modiano |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Mariner Books |
| Year published | 2016-09-20 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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