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The Black Notebook
Patrick Modiano
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Description for The Black Notebook
Paperback. A nocturnal wander through the hazes of memory and the mysteries of the past from Patrick Modiano, Nobel Laureate 2014 Translator(s): Polizzotti, Mark. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 15. Weight in Grams: 118.
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 decolonisation during the 1960's. He tries to remember what brought him into contact with a gang that frequented the hotel Unic in the area. His quest through seedy cafes and cheap hotels becomes an enquiry into a woman, Dannie, whom Jean loved and ... Read more
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 decolonisation during the 1960's. He tries to remember what brought him into contact with a gang that frequented the hotel Unic in the area. His quest through seedy cafes and cheap hotels becomes an enquiry into a woman, Dannie, whom Jean loved and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857054883
SKU
V9780857054883
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano was born in Paris, France in 1945. He was the recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He previously won the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for Rue des boutiques obscures, and the 1972 Grand Prix ... Read more
Reviews for The Black Notebook
A compelling meditation on identity and memory, and an evocative portrait of [Paris]
The Lady
Modiano's characters are deliberately elusive, his settings, by contrast, scrupulously and atmospherically drawn
Lucy Popescu
Financial Times
Modiano takes up his struggle with memory again, resuscitating people and places in one magnificent, impressionistic, tracking shot
Marianne Payot
Express ... Read more
The Lady
Modiano's characters are deliberately elusive, his settings, by contrast, scrupulously and atmospherically drawn
Lucy Popescu
Financial Times
Modiano takes up his struggle with memory again, resuscitating people and places in one magnificent, impressionistic, tracking shot
Marianne Payot
Express ... Read more