Honeymoon (Verba Mundi) - Hardcover

Modiano, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879239476 ISBN 13: 9780879239473

Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1995

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE 2014 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
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Modiano, winner of the Prix Goncourt, constructs "a haunting tale of quiet intensity" (Review of Contemporary Fiction). It parallels the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and career to hole up in a Paris hotel, with that of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he'd met twenty years before, and whose mystery continues to haunt him.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Jean B., the narrator of Patrick Modiano's Honeymoon, is submerged in a world where day and night, past and present, have no demarcations. Having spent his adult life making documentary films about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career, and takes what seems to be a journey to nowhere. He pretends to fly to Rio to make another film, but instead returns to his own Parisian suburb to spend his solitary days recounting or imagining the lives of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he had met twenty years before, and in whom he had recognized a spiritual anomie that seemed to reflect and justify his own. Little by little, their story takes on more reality than Jean's daily existence, as his excavation of the past slowly becomes an all-encompassing obsession.

About the Author:

Winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, Patrick Modiano was born in Paris in 1945. He is the author of numerous novels, plays, and children's books as well as the screenplay for Louis Malle's celebrated film Lacombe Lucien.

Widely considered his masterpiece, Missing Person was originally published in 1978 and was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's premier literary prize

About this edition

• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0879239476
• ISBN 13: 9780879239473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128