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The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de L'etoile - The Night Watch - Ring Roads by Patrick Modiano
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Brisk, smart, witty, elliptical ...Recalls the directors of the New Wave ...Bracing and brilliant'Independent 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 1 ...Show more
The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de L'etoile - the Night Watch - Ring Roads by Patrick Modiano
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 just after the war, Modiano was an angry young man in his twenties when these three brilliant, angry novels burst o ...Show more
The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'Etoile by Patrick Modiano
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation. We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphael Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement and self-loathing, who may be the heir to a Venezuelan fortune, ...Show more
The Search Warrant by Patrick Modiano
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Missing a young girl, Dora Bruder, 15, height 1.55m, oval-shaped face, grey-brown eyes, grey sports jacket, maroon pullover, navy blue skirt and hat, brown gym shoes. All information to M. and Mme Bruder, 41 Boulevard Ornano, Paris.' The author chanced upon this notice in a December 1941 issue of Paris ...Show more
The Search Warrant by Modiano, Patrick
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 2014 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. From her name on a list of deportees to Auschwitz ...Show more
Villa Triste by Patrick Modiano
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A haunting novel about lost youth, the search for identity and the fleetingness of time, by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature Patrick Modiano.
Villa Triste by Patrick Modiano
21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The narrator of Villa Triste, an anxious, roving, stateless young man of eighteen, arrives in a small French lakeside town near Switzerland in the early 1960s. The young man hides among the other summer visitors until he meets a beautiful young actress named Yvonne Jacquet, and a strange doctor, Ren Mei ...Show more