Patrick Modiano
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English
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"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...
3) Honeymoon
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English
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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 recounting or...
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xi, 186 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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"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...
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148 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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"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...
7) Un pedigrí
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Panorama de narrativas volume 684
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129 pages ; 23 cm.
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Español
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197 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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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 affair with a woman who disappears, and a narrator grappling with the mystery of a relationship stopped short. Set in mid-sixties Paris, After the Circus...
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Verba Mundi volume 8
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167 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"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?...
10) Viaje de novios
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Panorama de narrativas volume 909
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152 pages ; 22 cm.
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Español
11) Villa Triste
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Panorama de narrativas volume 734
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191 pages ; 23 cm.
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Español
13) El horizonte
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Panorama de narrativas volume 760
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159 pages ; 22 cm.
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Español
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El primer encuento entre Jean Bosmans, un aprediz de escritor, y Margaret Le Coz se produce por azar. Los dos huyen de los disturbios de una manifestacion, y en la boca del metro el tropieza, la arrastra consigo, la multitud los aplasta contra la pared. Anos desques el protagonista de la novela se pregunta si es posible estar seguro de que las palabras que dos personas han intercambiado durante su primer encuentro se han disipado en la nada como...
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130 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early years--shadowy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes dreamlike prose that translator Mark Polizzotti captures unerringly, Modiano offers a memoir of his first twenty-one years. Termed one of his "finest...
15) Sleep of memory
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124 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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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...
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Panorama de narrativas volume 725
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233 pages ; 23 cm.
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Español
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"Guy Roland es un hombre sin pasado y sin memoria. Ha trabajado durante ocho años en la agencia de detectives del barón Constantin von Hutte, que acaba de jubilarse, y emprende ahora, en esta novela de misterio, un apasionante viaje al pasado tras la pista de su propia identidad perdida. Paso a paso Guy Roland va a reconstruir su historia incierta, cuyas piezas se dispersan por Bora Bora, Nueva York, Vichy o Roma, y cuyos testigos habitan un París...
19) Dora Bruder
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119 pages : photographs ; 22 cm
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English
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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...
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157 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Jean Bosman, now his early twenties, soon becomes aware of a set of disturbing coincidences involving an elusive woman, his childhood home, and a host of disquieting characters who seem inordinately interested in his past, for reasons he can't fathom. As he journeys into the echoes of memory, past and present become increasingly intertwined, forming a web spanning half a century" -- Inside jacket.