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Book SynopsisPatrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in his tenth book published by Yale University Press
Trade Review“It is as a delineator of the labyrinths of human consciousness that Modiano excels. You feel the desperation with which the characters tug at the locked doors of their memories, and find yourself becoming more conscious of, and disturbed by, your own memory’s lacunae.”—Jake Kerridge,
Daily Telegraph“With Modiano, the repressed always returns—but only in flickers and whispers at the edge of perception. His spare, elliptical prose—translated again with finesse and panache by Mark Polizzotti—casts its glow of mystery and menace over the tiniest detail.”—Boyd Tonkin,
Spectator“Modiano’s elliptical detective novels are less whodunit, more whodunwhat.”—The Daily Telegraph ‘Paperbacks Read This Week’
“The French Nobelist mines familiar preoccupations to mesmerising effect in his latest novel...The city of light is marvellously evoked, a metropolis dense with mystery, teeming with ghosts from its often wilfully forgotten past.”—Hephzibah Anderson, The Observer
“A wry and compelling tale that’s as misty and heavy with meaning as a dream; not for nothing has the author been called ‘the Proust of our age.’”—
France Magazine“In
Invisible Ink, Patrick Modiano speaks magnificently about the relationship between writing and forgetting, the strata of memory that constitute a being.”—Raphaëlle Leyris,
Le Monde des Livres“Hauntingly memorable and evocative.”—Edward Ousselin,
World Literature Today“Breathtakingly beautiful.”—Nelly Kaprièlian,
Les Inrockuptibles“A refined and dazzling style. . . . The end is emotionally gripping.”—Marie-Laure Delorme,
Le Journal du Dimanche“A foggy and magnetic novel.”—Jérôme Garcin,
L’ObsFinalist for the Translation Prize, fiction category, sponsored by the French American Foundation
Praise for Patrick Modiano: “Modiano combines a detective’s curiosity with an elegist’s melancholy.”—Adam Kirsch,
New Republic “[Modiano] is a writer unlike any other and a worthy recipient of the Nobel.”—James Campbell,
Wall Street Journal “A body of work as deft and beautiful as any in postwar European literature. . . . [Modiano] is an excavator of memory.”—David L. Ulin,
Los Angeles Times “Modiano is a pure original. He has transformed the novel into a laboratory for producing atmospheres, not situations—where everything must be inferred and nothing can be proved.”—Adam Thirlwell,
The Guardian “There are few modern writers as pleasurable or interesting to read. Modiano is one of the great writers of our time.” —David Herman,
Jewish Chronicle
