Modiano\"s debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation....

One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature \"I am nothing. Nothing but a pale shape, silhouetted that evening against the cafe terrace, waiting for the rain to stop\" Guy Roland, a private detective in Paris, is trying to solve the mystery of his own past....

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 Montmartre....

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 1945, Modiano\"s brilliant, angry writings burst onto the Parisian literary scene and caused a storm....

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....

Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder – a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in an old December 1941 issue of Paris Soir – Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano sets out to find all he can about her....

\\\"Encore aujourd\"hui, il m\"arrive d\"entendre, le soir, une voix qui m\"appelle par mon prénom, dans la rue. Une voix rauque. Elle traîne un peu sur les syllabes et je la reconnais tout de suite: la voix de......

- Et l\"enfant? demanda Daragane. Vous avez eu des nouvelles de l\"enfant? - Aucune. Je me suis souvent demandé ce qu\"il était devenu... Quel drôle de départ dans la vie... - Ils l\"avaient......

Qu\"est-ce que tu dirais si j\"avais tué quelqu\"un? J\"ai cru qu\"elle plaisantait ou qu\"elle m\"avait posé cette question à cause des romans policiers qu\"elle avait l\"habitude de......

In 1988 Patrick Modiano stumbled across an ad between the stock market report and a story of a school visit to Marechal Petain in the personal columns of Paris Soir from December 31, 1941: \\\"We are looking for a young girl, Dora Bruder, 15 years......

Je suis tomb? sur la vieille coupure de journal qui datait de l\"hiver o? Ingrid avait rencontr? Riguaud. C\"?tait Ingrid qui me l\"avait donn?e la derni?re fois que je l\"avais vue. Pendant le d?ner, elle avait commenc? ? me parler de......

Un dimanche de juillet, Ambrose Guise arrive à Paris. Personne. Sauf les statues. Une ville fantôme, lui semble-t-il, après un bombardement et l\"exode de ses habitants. Auteur de romans policiers anglais, il vient......

Sono tre le donne che camminano lungo le strade di questo libro. E camminando cercano una direzione: dietro le spalle tutte le sicurezze di un\"esistenza stabilita dagli altri, davanti agli occhi le infinite possibilità di chi ancora non......

Elles n\"ont pas vraiment d\"histoire, veulent rompre avec un présent ennuyeux, et se lancent à la conquête d\"un avenir plus qu\"incertain. Les trois héroïnes de ces trois récits......

Le narrateur part à la recherche de son père. Le voici dans un village, en bordure de la forêt de Fontainebleau, du temps de l\"occupation, au milieu d\"individus troubles. Qui est ce père? Trafiquant? Juif......