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The first novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, which with The Night Watch and Ring Roads forms a trilogy of the Occupation''A Marcel Proust of our time'' Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy''Modiano is the poet of the Occupation and a spokesman for the disappeared, and I am thrilled that the Swedish Academy has recognised him'' Rupert Thomson, GuardianModiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation.We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphaël Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement and self-loathing, who may be the heir to a Venezuelan fortune, may have lived during the Nazi Occupation, may have rubbed shoulders with the most notorious collaborators and anti-Semites of the time, may even have been the lover of Eva Braun or he may have been none of these things.But at the centre of this vor

La Place de lEtoile

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 1 October 2016
      ISBN-13 9781408867952
      978-1408867952
      ISBN-10 1408867958
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      The first novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, which with The Night Watch and Ring Roads forms a trilogy of the Occupation''A Marcel Proust of our time'' Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy''Modiano is the poet of the Occupation and a spokesman for the disappeared, and I am thrilled that the Swedish Academy has recognised him'' Rupert Thomson, GuardianModiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation.We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphaël Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement and self-loathing, who may be the heir to a Venezuelan fortune, may have lived during the Nazi Occupation, may have rubbed shoulders with the most notorious collaborators and anti-Semites of the time, may even have been the lover of Eva Braun or he may have been none of these things.But at the centre of this vor

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