Paris Nocturne / Patrick Modiano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Modiano, Patrick, 1945- Author.

Contributor:

Weston-Evans, Phoebe.

Series:

Margellos world republic of letters book.

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory--Fiction.

Memory.

Traffic accidents--Fiction.

Traffic accidents.

Paris (France)--Fiction.

Paris (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An accident, a vanishing, a memory gap, a strange dream: a classic noir work of fiction by Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano 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 only deepens as the characters grow increasingly apprehensive; meanwhile, readers are held spellbound. Modiano's low-key writing style, his preoccupation with memory and its untrustworthiness, and his deep concern with timeless moral questions have earned him an international audience of devoted readers. This beautifully rendered translation brings another of his finest works to an eagerly waiting English-language audience. Paris Nocturne has been named "a perfect book" by Libération, while L'Express observes, "Paris Nocturne is cloaked in darkness, but it is a novel that is turned toward the light."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Paris Nocturne

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9780300218923

0300218923

OCLC:

922581423