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A haunting novel that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prizewinning author Patrick Modiano

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 2014Haunted 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 to the fragments he is able to uncover about the Bruder family, Modiano delivers a moving survey of a decade-long investigation that revived for him the sights, sounds and sorrowful rhythms of occupied Paris. And in seeking to exhume Dora Bruder's fate, he in turn faces his own family history.Translated by Joanna Kilmartin ‘Absolutely magnificent’ Le Monde

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A haunting novel that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prize–winning author Patrick Modiano “Polizzotti’s crisp and evocative translation keeps the reader hooked.”—Publishers Weekly In his acclaimed semi-autobiographical novella Suspended Sentences, Patrick Modiano recounted a dramatic season in his childhood, of the home he shared with sinister surrogate parents, the mysterious events that took place there, and an infamous heist that was never solved. In Scene of the Crime, Modiano conjures the aftermath of those years. A decade has passed, and Jean Bosmans, now in his early twenties, becomes aware of a set of disturbing coincidences involving an elusive woman, his childhood home, and a host of disquieting characters who seem inordinately interested in his past, for reasons he can’t fathom. As he journeys into the echoes of memory, past and present become increasingly intertwined, forming a web spanning half a century. With the taut suspense of a detective novel, this book slowly peels away layers of time and forgetfulness to reveal the haunting, threatening, ultimately tragic legacies of what we think we know about our lives.

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“Elegant. Unpretentious. Approachable. . . . He is, all in all, quite an endearing Nobelist.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post “Modiano is a pure original.”—Adam Thirlwell, The Guardian “A fine introduction to Modiano’s later work.”—The Economist “These novellas have a mood. They cast a spell.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin—represents a sterling example of the author’s originality and appeal, while Mark Polizzotti’s superb English-language translations capture not only Modiano’s distinctive narrative voice but also the matchless grace and spare beauty of his prose. Although originally published separately, Modiano’s three novellas form a single, compelling whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Modiano draws on his own experiences, blended with the real or invented stories of others, to present a dreamlike autobiography that is also the biography of a place. Orphaned children, mysterious parents, forgotten friends, enigmatic strangers—each appears in this three-part love song to a Paris that no longer exists. Shadowed by the dark period of the Nazi Occupation, these novellas reveal Modiano’s fascination with the lost, obscure, or mysterious: a young person’s confusion over adult behavior; the repercussions of a chance encounter; the search for a missing father; the aftershock of a fatal affair. To read Modiano’s trilogy is to enter his world of uncertainties and the almost accidental way in which people find their fates.

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One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Modiano is a pure original' Adam Thirlwell'I am nothing. Nothing but a pale shape, silhouetted that evening against the café terrace, waiting for the rain to stop'Guy Roland, a private detective in Paris, is trying to solve the mystery of his own past. His memories erased by amnesia, he has no idea where he is from, or even his real name. As he searches for clues through the city's shadowy streets and smoky bars, latching on to strangers, accumulating mementoes, photographs, scraps and stories, he starts to piece together the events that brought him here, all leading back to the murky days of wartime occupation.

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Encuadernación: Rústica con solapas.Un domingo de julio, Ambrose Guise, escritor de novelas policíacas, regresa a París tras veinte años de ausencia para encontrarse con su editor japonés. Pronto surgen el París de su memoria, los misterios de su pasado y su verdadera identidad: Jean Dekker. Barrio perdido nos adentra en una ciudad crepuscular, llena de lugares y personajes extraños: el apartamento de Carmen Blin frente a la Place de l?Alma, los archivos que dejó Daniel de Rocroy, las codificadas conversaciones con Ghita Wattier. Barrio perdido es el Dekker que desapareció después de un crimen sin resolver.

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PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA MODIANO INÉDITO Una historia romántica, policiaca, de aventuras, road movie: una novela extraordinaria para descubrir o redescubrir a un autor único.Un joven aspirante a escritor coincide con una pareja de paso en un París invernal. Él es adicto al juego y ella sueña con viajar a Mallorca. Los tres forman un vago triángulo amoroso, hasta la irrupción de un hombre misterioso llamado Cartaud.Novela romántica, policiaca, de aventuras y road movie, Más allá del olvido es también la historia de una obsesión. Una obra clave para descubrir o redescubrir a Patrick Modiano, Premio Nobel de Literatura.La crítica ha dicho...Un escritor extraordinario y discreto, cautivador y obsesionado por la reconstrucción de un pasado que siempre permanece inalcanzable, enigmático y levemente onírico.Daniel Gascón, Letras LibresLas vidas no vividas, los sueños de huida, la constante aparición y desaparición de gente sin explicación alguna... Todas las característ

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Entrada la noche, en un día ya lejano en que estaba a punto de cumplir la mayoría de edad, cruzaba la plaza de Les Pyramides en dirección a la plaza de La Concorde cuando salió un coche de entre las sombras. Primero pensé que me había rozado; luego noté un dolor agudo del tobillo a la rodilla. Había caído desplomado a la acera. Pero conseguí levantarme. El coche dio un bandazo y chocó contra uno de los arcos de los soportales de la plaza con ruido de cristales rotos. Se abrió la puerta y salió tambaleándose una mujer. Así, con un joven atropellado en el centro de París por un Fiat verde, arranca Accidente nocturno.La policía toma declaración a los implicados y después el joven es enviado a una clínica para que le curen la pierna. Mientras convalece, ese accidente le trae el recuerdo de otro vivido en la infancia y no logra quitarse de la cabeza a la mujer que lo ha atropellado. Al salir de la clínica decide emprender la búsqueda de la conductora, sobre la que tiene algunas pistas:

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'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 1945, Modiano’s brilliant, angry writings burst onto the Parisian literary scene and caused a storm. His first, ferociously satirical novel, La Place de l’Étoile, was remarkable in seriously questioning both Nazi collaboration in France and the myths of the Gaullist era. The Night Watch tells the story of a man caught between his work for the French Gestapo and for a Resistance cell. Ring Roads recounts a son’s search for his Jewish father, who disappeared ten years previously. These brilliant, almost hallucinatory, evocations of the Occupation attempt to exorcise the past by exploring the morally ambiguous worlds of collaboration and resistance.

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