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Pedigree by Patrick Modiano
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me" Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' post-war years, Pedigree is an autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous childhood - a childhood replete with insecurity and sorrow that ...Show more
Sleep of Memory by Patrick Modiano
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano is a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and fragmented sensations Patrick Modiano's first book since his 2014 Nobel Prize revisits moments of the author's past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive undersid ...Show more
Sleep of Memory by Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano is a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and fragmented sensations Patrick Modiano's first novel since his 2014 Nobel Prize revisits moments of the author's past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive undersi ...Show more
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano
19.99 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
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
Such Fine Boys by Patrick Modiano
29.99 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
29.99 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
The Black Notebook by Patrick Modiano
22.99 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
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Brisk, smart, witty, elliptical ...Recalls the directors of the New Wave ...Bracing and brilliant'Independent 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 in 1 ...Show more
The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de L'etoile - the Night Watch - Ring Roads by Patrick Modiano
35.00 AUD
Category: 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
The Search Warrant by Patrick Modiano
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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
Villa Triste by Patrick Modiano
21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The 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. The young man hides among the other summer visitors until he meets a beautiful young actress named Yvonne Jacquet, and a strange doctor, Ren Mei ...Show more