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28 Paradises by Patrick Modiano / Dominique Zehrfuss
17.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
28 Paradises is a rare book: it reveals not only the individual talents of the authors, Modiano and Zehrfuss, but also the depth of the couple's creative union. Sensitively translated into English for the first time by Damion Searls, 28 Paradises captures the exquisite sadness of waking from a beautiful ...Show more
After the Circus: A Novel by Patrick Modiano
26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano's writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance. In this evocative novel the internationally acclaimed author takes up one of his most compelling themes: a love aff ...Show more
Catherine Certitude by Patrick Modiano
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
A classic French story from Nobel Prize-winner Patrick Modiano and celebrated illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé. Beautifully illustrated, this is a love letter to Paris, ballet and childhood for fans of The Little Prince, Le Petit Nicholas and Madeline. Catherine lives with her gentle father, Georges Cer ...Show more
Catherine Certitude by Patrick Modiano
22.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
A classic French story from Nobel Prize-winner Patrick Modiano and celebrated illustrator Jean-Jacques SempU. Beautifully illustrated, this is a love letter to Paris, ballet and childhood for fans of The Little Prince, Le Petit Nicholasand Madeline. Catherine lives with her gentle father, Georges Certit ...Show more
Honeymoon by Patrick Modiano
16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, constructs "a haunting tale of quiet intensity" (Review of Contemporary Fiction). It parallels the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and career to hole up in a Paris hotel, with that of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he'd met ...Show more
In the Cafe of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano
23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Four narrators, a student from a cafe, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. The daughter of a single mother who works in the Moulin Rouge, Louki grows up in poverty in Montmar ...Show more
In the Cafe of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano
27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
NYRB Classics OriginalWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"In the Cafe 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 novel, inspired in part by the circle (depi ...Show more
Missing Person by Patrick Modiano
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The narrator wanders the streets of Paris. He visits bars, flats, restaurants. He picks through fragments of information, old photos, partial conversations. He is trying to piece together events of which he has no memory, of something terrible that happened during the Second World War in which he is in ...Show more
Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano
29.99 AUD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters (Paperback)
This uneasy, compelling novel begins with a nighttime accident on the streets of Paris. The unnamed narrator, a teenage boy, is hit by a car whose driver he vaguely recalls having met before. The mysterious ensuing events, involving a police van, a dose of ether, awakening in a strange hospital, and the ...Show more
Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano
27.99 AUD
Category: 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
35.00 AUD
Category: 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