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Catherine Certitude by Patrick Modiano
$10.00 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
Family Record by Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
An enthralling reflection on the ways that family history influences identity, from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature A mix of autobiography and lucid invention, this highly personal work offers a deeply affecting exploration of the meaning of identity and pedigree. With his signature blend of cand ...Show more
Invisible Ink - A Novel by Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti (Translator)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in a "mesmerizing, enigmatic novel" (Publishers Weekly) "Nobel Prize winner Modiano's title smartly ties together the theme, plot, and ambience of his latest book . . . The past overlaps and memories half-emerge in classic Modiano fashion, just as ...Show more
Invisible Ink - A Novel by Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti (Translator)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: World Republic of Letters (Yale) Ser.
Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in a "mesmerizing, enigmatic novel" (Publishers Weekly) "An enchanting read."--Ploughshares The latest work from Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, Invisible Ink is a spellbinding tale of memory and its illusions. Private detective Jean Eyben receiv ...Show more
Little Jewel by Patrick Modiano
$27.99 AUD
Category: 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
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
Out of the Dark by Patrick Modiano
$34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Patrick Modiano, the author of more than 20 books, is one of France's most admired contemporary novelists. Out of the Dark is a moody, expertly rendered tale of a love affair between two drifters. The narrator, writing in 1995, looks back 30 years to a time when, having abandoned his studies and selling ...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
Pedigree by Patrick Modiano
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"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
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
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano
$19.98 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