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Little Jewel by Patrick Modiano
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
I'd tell him everything, about my mother, about Jean Borand, about the apartment near the Bois de Boulogne, and about the girl they used to call Little Jewel...The same terrifying panic that came over me in the street and woke me with a start at five in the morning. One day in the corridors of the metro ...Show more
Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Late at night, long ago, when I was about to turn twenty-one, I was crossing Place des Pyramides on my way to Place de la Concorde when a car appeared suddenly from out of the darkness. At first I thought it had just grazed me, then I felt a sharp pain from my ankle to my knee...In the opening scene of ...Show more
Pedigree by Patrick Modiano
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Patrick Modiano's early life was defined by the remarkable loves and lives of his mercurial parents, and by a tragedy that left an indelible mark. His mother, a beautiful Belgian who settled in Paris, struggled to find steady work as an actress, and her constant touring and auditioning left little time ...Show more
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano
$40.00 NZD
Category: World 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
The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de L'etoile - the Night Watch - Ring Roads by Patrick Modiano
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
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