So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood - Hardcover

Modiano, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 054463506X ISBN 13: 9780544635067

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015

Synopsis

A haunting novel of suspense from the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature

In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary but irresistibly curious. Almost at once, he finds himself entangled with a shady gambler and a beautiful, fragile young woman, who draw Daragane into the mystery of a decades-old murder. The investigation will force him to confront the memory of a trauma he had all but buried. 

 

With So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood Patrick Modiano adds a new chapter to a body of work whose supreme psychological insight and subtle, atmospheric writing have earned him worldwide renown — including the Nobel Prize in Literature. This masterly novel, now translated into twenty languages, penetrates the deepest enigmas of identity and compels us to ask whether we ever know who we truly are.

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About the Author

PATRICK MODIANO was born in 1945 in a suburb of Paris and grew up in various locations throughout France. In 1967, he published his first novel, La Place de l'étoile, to great acclaim. Since then, he has published over twenty novels—including the Goncourt Prize−winning Rue des boutiques obscures (translated as Missing Person), Dora Bruder, and Les Boulevards des ceintures (translated as Ring Roads)—as well as the memoir Un Pedigree and a children's book, Catherine Certitude. He collaborated with Louis Malle on the screenplay for the film Lacombe Lucien. In 2014, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy cited “the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the Occupation,” calling him “a Marcel Proust of our time.”

From the Back Cover

Readers new to Modiano, drawn in by the Nobel Prize, will enter a universe unlike any other and will remain forever captive to its enchantments. Figaro

Modiano s attraction comes from his style, which is laconic and beautiful but also quite accessible . . . I devoured all of his books. Alice Kaplan, author of Dreaming in French

An author with a virtuoso s command of language, equally at ease with the simple and the complex, the precise and the evocative. New York Review of Books

Modiano s most recent novel is a work of melancholic beauty . . . Sincere, shattering, magnificent. L Express

A small gem . . . Immediately striking and affecting. Elle France

From the Inside Flap

A haunting novel of suspense from an acclaimed literary master

In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary but irresistibly curious. Almost at once, he finds himself entangled with a shady gambler and a beautiful, fragile young woman who draw Daragane into the mystery of a decades-old murder. The investigation will lead him to confront the memory of a trauma he had all but buried.

With So You Don t Get Lost in the Neighborhood, his first publication since winning the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature, Patrick Modiano adds a new chapter to a body of work whose supreme psychological insight and subtle, atmospheric writing have earned him worldwide renown. This intense, sinuous novel, now translated into twenty-five languages, penetrates the deepest enigmas of identity and compels us to ask whether we ever know who we truly are.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 054463506X
• ISBN 13: 9780544635067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 155