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  • Missing Person

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by Daniel Weissbort ...
    Series series Verba Mundi International Literature Series
    An amnesiac searches for his identity, from Polynesia to Rome, in this novel by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Dora Bruder.Guy Roland is in pursuit of the identity he lost in the murky days of the Paris Occupation. For ten years, he has lived without a past. His current life and name were given to him by his recently retired boss, Hutte, who welcomed him, a onetime client, into his detective ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Villa Triste

    A Novel

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by John Cullen ...
    This novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Patrick Modiano is one of the most seductive and accessible in his oeuvre: the story of a man’s memories of fleeing responsibility, finding love, and searching for meaning in an uncertain worldThe narrator of Villa Triste, an anxious, roving, stateless young man of eighteen, arrives in a small French lakeside town near Switzerland in the early 1960s. He is ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Ballerina

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France—a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano“Pithy and introspective. . . . Modiano delivers wondrous images of the tricks memory plays, sharply translated by Polizzotti. . . . Readers will savor this wistful narrative.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)Paris, 1960s. A young dancer and single mother, who ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • In the Café of Lost Youth

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by Chris Clarke ...
    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAn alluring young woman is the center of attention at a French café in this deeply moving love story about identity, memory, time, and yearning, set in 1950s Paris.In the Café of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Suspended Sentences

    Three Novellas

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series 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 Ruin—represents a sterling example of the author’s originality and appeal, while Mark Polizzotti ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Such Fine Boys

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    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 series of exquisitely crafted stories about such jettisoned boys at the exclusive Valvert School on ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Little Jewel

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by Penny Hueston ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A mesmerizing novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, now superbly translated for English-language readers For long standing admirers of Modiano’s luminous writing as well as those readers encountering his work for the first time, Little Jewel will be an exciting discovery. Uniquely told by a young female narrator, Little Jewel is the story of a young woman adrift in Paris, imprisoned in an ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Scene of the Crime

    A Novel

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    **A haunting novel that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prize–winning author Patrick Modiano“Polizzotti’s crisp and evocative translation keeps the reader hooked.”—Publishers Weekly**In his acclaimed semi-autobiographical novella Suspended Sentences, Patrick Modiano recounted a dramatic season in his childhood, of the home he shared with sinister surrogate parents, the mysterious ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Young Once

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    A NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL: The Nobel Prize winner’s breakthrough novel is an unforgettable story of love, yearning, and grief—now available in English for the first time.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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Night Watch

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    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.The Night Watch is his second novel and tells the story of a young man of limited means, caught between his work for the French Gestapo informing on the Resistance, and his work for a Resistance cell informing on the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Sundays in August

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    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 stories uncomfortably close and getting closer . . . this ominous novel is Patrick Modiano’s most ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Dora Bruder

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    2014 Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteraturePatrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal columns of the New Year's Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir. Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl, Dora Bruder, who had run away from her Catholic boarding school, the ad sets Modiano off on a quest to find out everything he can about Dora and why ... Read more

    $18.99 USD