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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.
6) 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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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...
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Verba Mundi volume 8
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167 pages ; 21 cm.
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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?...
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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...
10) After the circus
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197 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
Description
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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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...
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