Patrick Modiano
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Although originally published separately, Modiano's three novellas form a single ... whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Modiano draws on his own experiences, blended with the real or invented stories of others, to present a dreamlike autobiography that is also the biography of a place. Orphaned children, mysterious parents, forgotten friends, enigmatic strangers--each appears in this three-part love song to a Paris that...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This uneasy, compelling novel begins with a nighttime accident on the streets of Paris. The unnamed narrator, a teenage boy, is hit by a car whose driver he vaguely recalls having met before. The mysterious ensuing events, involving a police van, a dose of ether, awakening in a strange hospital, and the disappearance of the woman driver, culminate in a packet being pressed into the boy's hand. It is an envelope stuffed full of bank notes. The confusion...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A haunting novel of suspense from the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. 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...
4) Dora Bruder
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Publication Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1988 Patrick Modiano stumbles across an ad in the personal columns of the New Year's Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir: "Missing, a young girl, Dora Bruder, age 15, height 1 m 55, oval-shaped face, gray-brown eyes, gray sports jacket, maroon pullover, navy blue skirt and hat, brown gym shoes." Placed by the parents of Dora, who had run away from her Catholic boarding school, the ad sets Modiano off on a quest to find out everything he can about her...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Publication Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Who was Louki? Did anyone really know? She made her mark on all of us in different ways. We all remember her, some of us more than others, but did any of us truly know her? Can anyone honestly say they know another person? In the Café of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The novel, which includes vignettes...
Author
Series
Verba Mundi volume 8
Publisher
David R. Godine
Publication Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"For ten years Guy Roland has lived without a past. His current life and name were given to him by his recently retired boss, Hutte, who welcomed him, a one-time client, into his detective agency. Guy makes full use of Hutte's files - directories, yearbooks, and papers of all kinds going back half a century - but leads to his former life are few. Could he really be that person in a photograph, a young man remembered by some as a South American attache?...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Publication Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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 l'Étoile?'...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Revisits moments of the author's past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive underside of love, the dreams and follies of youth, the vagaries of memory, and the melancholy of loss. Writing from the perspective of an older man, the narrator relives a key period in his life through his relationships with several enigmatic women -- Geneviève, Martine, Madeleine, a certain Madame Huberson -- in the process unearthing his troubled...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The latest work from Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, Invisible Ink is a spellbinding tale of memory and its illusions. Private detective Jean Eyben receives an assignment to locate a missing woman, the mysterious Noëlle Lefebvre. While the case proves fruitless, the clues Jean discovers along the way continue to haunt him. Three decades later, he resumes the investigation for himself, revisiting old sites and tracking down witnesses, compelled by...
10) Young once
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Odile and Louis are leading a happy, bucolic life with their two children in the French countryside near the Swiss mountains. It is Odile's thirty-fifth birthday, and Louis's thirty-fifth birthday is a few weeks away. Then the story shifts back to their early years: Louis, just freed from his military service and at loose ends, taken up by a shady character who brings him to Paris to do some work for a friend who manages a garage; Odile, an aspiring...
11) Villa triste
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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 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...
12) Dora Bruder
Author
Series
Publisher
Seix Barral
Publication Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
The author documents his ten-year search for details about the life of a Jewish Parisian teenager who ran away from her Catholic boarding school and was ultimately deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis, describing the Paris of that time period and reminiscing on memory and loss.
"Recuperación de la novela emblemática de Patrick Modiano. El 31 de diciembre de 1941, en el perioódico Paris-Soir apareció un anuncio dramático: unos padres trataban de...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A writer's notebook becomes the key that unlocks memories of a love formed and lost in 1960s Paris. 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...
14) Such fine boys
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a series of exquisitely crafted stories about such jettisoned boys at the exclusive Valvert School on the outskirts of Paris: abandoned children of privilege, left to create new family ties among themselves. Misfits and heroes, sports champions and good-hearted...
15) Ballerina
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France--a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano.
16) Tinta simpática
Author
Series
Panorama de narrativas volume 1076
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Publication Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"The latest work from Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, Invisible Ink is a spellbinding tale of memory and its illusions. Private detective Jean Eyben receives an assignment to locate a missing woman, the mysterious Noëlle Lefebvre. While the case proves fruitless, the clues Jean discovers along the way continue to haunt him. Three decades later, he resumes the investigation for himself, revisiting old sites and tracking down witnesses, compelled by...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper stories uncomfortably close and getting closer . . . this ominous novel is Patrick Modiano's most noirish work to date. Set in Nice--a departure from the author's more familiar Paris--this novel evokes the bright sun and dark shadow of the Riviera. Modiano's trademark ability to create a haunting...
19) Biệt thự buồn
Author
Publisher
Nhà xuất bản Hội Nhà Văn
Publication Date
2024.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
"Một mùa hè những năm sáu mươi, tại một thị trấn nhỏ ven hồ thuộc nước Pháp, mạn gần Thụy Sĩ, Victor Chmara mười tám tuổi đang lẩn trốn điều gì đó trong sợ hãi. Ẩn náu giữa những du khách đi nghỉ mát, anh gặp được cô diễn viên trẻ xinh đẹp Yvonne Jacquet và vị bác sĩ kỳ lạ René Meinthe. Cuộc tao ngộ ấy đã đưa Victor đến vùng đất của giới...
Author
Series
Colección compactos volume 36
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Publication Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Entre exactitudes a las que querrían agarrarse y nebulosas que no quieren nombrar, cuatro personajes son convocados para hablar de uno de ellos, que también habla. ¿Versiones contradictorias? No. ¿Complementarias? Bah. El mundo de En el café de la juventud perdida no es un mundo que se pueda recomponer. Tiene algo de Escenas de la vida bohemia, claro, pero el libro que más cita es Horizontes perdidos, la invención de Shangri-La, donde el tiempo...



