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Pedigree: A Memoir by Patrick Modiano
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters (Hardcover)
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 dr ...Show more
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jean Daragane is a writer and a recluse. As he enters his third month without contact with another living soul he receives a telephone call from a man who claims to have found his old address book. Though suspicious of his manner, Daragane agrees to meet his mystery caller, one Gilles Ottolini, who intr ...Show more
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jean Daragane, writer and recluse, has purposely built a life of seclusion away from the Parisian bustle. He doesn't see many people, he rarely goes out: he spends his life in a solitary world of his own making. His peace is shattered however, one hot September afternoon, by a threatening phone call fr ...Show more
Such Fine Boys by Patrick Modiano
$29.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate 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 seri ...Show more
Sundays in August by Patrick Modiano
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper sto ...Show more
Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas by Patrick Modiano
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of ...Show more
The Black Notebook by Patrick Modiano
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A writer discovers a set of notes in his notebook and sets off on a journey through the Paris of his past, in search of the woman he loved forty years previously.Set in the Montparnasse district of Paris, the author, Jean, retraces his nocturnal footsteps around the left bank during France's period of ...Show more
The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de L'etoile - the Night Watch - Ring Roads by Patrick Modiano
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. Born just after the war, Modiano was an angry young man in his twenties when these three brilliant, angry novels burst o ...Show more
The Search Warrant by Modiano, Patrick
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 2014 Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder - a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in an old December 1941 issue of Paris Soir - Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano sets out to find all he can about her. From her name on a list of deportees to Auschwitz ...Show more
The Search Warrant by Patrick Modiano
$20.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
'Missing a young girl, Dora Bruder, 15, height 1.55m, oval-shaped face, grey-brown eyes, grey sports jacket, maroon pullover, navy blue skirt and hat, brown gym shoes. All information to M. and Mme Bruder, 41 Boulevard Ornano, Paris.' The author chanced upon this notice in a December 1941 issue of Paris ...Show more
Young Once by Patrick Modiano
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "Young Once" is a crucial book in the career of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. It was his breakthrough novel, in which he stripped away the difficulties of his earlier work and found a clear, mysteriously moving voice for his haunting st ...Show more