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Guy Roland is a man without a past or a memory. He worked for eight years in the detective agency of Baron Constantin von Hutte, has just retired and begins now, in this novel of mystery, an exciting journey into the past on the...

Winter in Nice. It is raining and the coffee shops are totally empty. This off-season story starts in the French Riviera, where the main character meets Sylvia. The story raises some questions that do not have easy answers. / Niza en invierno. Llueve y...

Jean Bosmans, an apprentice writer, meets Margaret Le Coz by chance. Years later, the protagonist of the novel questions whether the words exhcanged during their first encounter have faded into nothingness. Thirty years later Bosmans redraws the map of his relationship with Margaret, motivated...

Paris, 1960. Poets, situationists, and students gather at the Café Condé. Despite the nostalgia, Modiano gives us a mystery novel about the enigmatic Louki, the daughter of a Moulin Rouge employee. Louki deals with invented identities and struggles to build a perpetual present. /...

Memory does not follow a chronological order: it goes forward and backward. This third volume of My Struggle is narrated in this way, with spasmodic accuracy that results in a spectacular exercise of autobiographical realty. Boyhood Island is the Tromøy Island of 1969, where...

In The Herb of the Nights, Modiano invites us, as in his other novels, to a dramatic journey, this time through a spectral Paris. The city is configured as an inner geography, made of layers of time confused and intermingled in this evocation and...

The young Dominique rehearses her role as Nina in Chekhov's The Seagull, accompanied by her boyfriend Jean, an aspiring writer. They are both twenty and in full learning of life. Above them loom two suffocating figures who are already in their fifties: Jean’s mother,...

Jean Darangane, narrating as a seventy-year-old man but also as his ten-year-old self, and then twenty years afterwards, reveals a path of memories, some blurred, some as clear as a lighting flash. This is a book about losing perspective of your surroundings. / Jean...

In a Paris somewhere between reality, memories, and daydream, a young man encounters several enigmatic women. The corpse of a man appears, apparently accidentally killed by one by one of these women. All these encounters are evoked, fifty years later, by the mature man...

Jimmy Sarano lives in a Mediterranean city in a self-imposed exile. He writes serialized novels for Radio Mundial, a small radio station with a big name. His life is all about routine, until one day he finds a girl whose face reminds him of...

On the outskirts of Paris, one finds the Valvert boarding school, where pupils are “sons of chance and from nowhere.” Friendships are forged eventually untied by time. Many years later, the boy that once was in charge of the video projector is still thinking...

A detective trainee named Jean Eyben is commissioned by the Hutte agency, where he works, to follow the trail of a woman. The woman is named Noëlle Lefebvre, and the young investigator pursues her unsuccessfully. Thirty years later, he takes up that case on...

The three heroines of these stories are unknown even to themselves. They want to break from the boring present and embark on an uncertain future. The first hasn’t gotten the job of her dreams. The second is an orphan. The third has worked one...

This volume collects the first three novels of a key author of contemporary French literature. Three novels that received numerous awards: they represent brilliant novels, social complicity, organized crime, and parties in this black period of twentieth century France, specifically occupied Paris. / Este...

Paris, October 1942. A couple meets during the city's occupation. He’s Jewish; she's Belgian. They marry and have two children; one of them is Patrick Modiano. They lived for twenty years in Conti, among strange characters: businessmen whose jobs are always mysterious, actresses willing...

Almost 35 years old, Odile and Louis live in a valley full of firs, a red cable car, and a ski station among the mountains. When they were young they used to live in Paris and learned knowledge that is not easy to learn....

Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, constructs "a haunting tale of quiet intensity"; (Review of Contemporary Fiction). It tells the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and career to hole up in a Paris hotel, with Ingrid...