Sidestepping the incipient Algerian War of Independence, a young Algerian Jew leaves Paris for a lakeside town in the French Alps. Years later he is haunted by this seemingly idyllic summer.... read more
Modiano has exchanged his usual Parisian setting for Nice and the Riviera: the brightness of the sunshine, however, just makes for darker shadows. First English publication of this subtle an... read more
Four voices used to describe one woman's drift through life, told with Modiano's characteristic motifs of nocturnal walks, the last metro, night-time Paris as a sort of no-man's land
An unassuming, gentle and mysterious reverie by the Nobel laureate and his wife, with hummingbirds and ibis under a turqoise sky, grazing on wild strawberries, where the roses grow without t... read more