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This novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano is one of the most seductive and accessible in his oeuvre: the story of a man's memories of fleeing responsibility, finding love, and searching for meaning in an uncertain world The narrator of Villa Triste, an anxious, roving, stateless young man of eighteen, arrives in a small French lakeside town near Switzerland in the early 1960s. He is fleeing the atmosphere of menace he feels arou...

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Jordan Stump is a professor of French at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln. He is the translator of numerous novels by Marie Redonnet, ¿ic Chevillard, Christian Oster, Lutz Bassmann, and Antoine Volodine, many of which are available from the University of Nebraska Press. His translation of Claude Simon¿s The Jardin des Plantes was awarded the French-American Foundation¿s translation prize and he was named Chevalier de l¿Ordre des Arts et des ...

Jean B., the narrator of Patrick Modiano's Honeymoon, is submerged in a world where day and night, past and present, have no demarcations. Having spent his adult life making documentary films about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career, and takes what seems to be a journey to nowhere. He pretends to fly to Rio to make another film, but instead returns to his own Parisian suburb to spend his solitary days recounti...

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 th...

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París, años 60. En el café Condé se reúnen poetas malditos, futuros situacionistas y estudiantes fascinados por la bohemia parisina.

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Born at the close of World War II, 2014 Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano was a young man in his twenties when he burst onto the Parisian literary scene with these three brilliant, angry novels about the wartime Occupation of Paris.The epigraph to his first novel, among the first to seriously question Nazi collaboration in France, reads: "In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man and says: 'Excuse me, monsieur, where is La Place de...

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A mesmerizing novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, now superbly translated for English-language readers

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An amnesic searches for his identity, from Polynesia to Rome, in this novel by master storyteller Patrick Modiano: winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureGuy Roland is in pursuit of the identity he lost in the murky days of the Paris Occupation. For ten years, he has lived without a past. His current life and name were given to him by his recently retired boss, Hutte, who welcomed him, a onetime client, into his detective agency. Guy makes ful...

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An engrossing mystery of a life from master storyteller Patrick Modiano: winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureJean B., the narrator of Patrick Modiano's Honeymoon, is submerged in a world where day and night, past and present, have no demarcations. Having spent his adult life making documentary films about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career, and takes what seems to be a journey to nowhere.He pretends to fly ...

De schrijver Jean Daragane probeert een pijnlijke gebeurtenis uit zijn verleden te vergeten. Maar als het adresboekje dat hij is kwijtgeraakt door twee louche figuren wordt teruggevonden, wordt hij overvallen door herinneringen aan de jaren vijftig, toen het huis van zijn pleegmoeder door de politie in de gaten werd gehouden.

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