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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...

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. /...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...