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Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue / by Modiano, Patrick,1945-author.(CARDINAL)708623;
"Encore aujourd'hui, il m'arrive d'entendre, le soir, une voix qui m'appelle par mon prénom, dans la rue. Une voix rauque. Elle traîne un peu sur les syllabes et je la reconnais tout de suite : la voix de Louki. Je me retourne, mais il n'y a personne. Pas seulement le soir, mais au creux de ces après-midi d'été où vous ne savez plus très bien en quelle année vous êtes. Tout va recommencer comme avant. Les mêmes jours, les mêmes nuits, les mêmes lieux, les mêmes rencontres. L'Éternel Retour."Nobel Prize in Literature, 2014
Subjects: Novels.; Friendship; Young women; Youth; Students; Nineteen sixties; French fiction.; Friendships.; Youth.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dora Bruder / by Modiano, Patrick,1945-(CARDINAL)708623; Kilmartin, Joanna.(CARDINAL)683398;
Subjects: Biographies.; Bruder, Dora, 1926-1942?; Jews; Jewish girls; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Missing person / by Modiano, Patrick,1945-(CARDINAL)708623; Weissbort, Daniel.(CARDINAL)711520;
"For ten years Guy Roland has lived without a past. His current life and name were given to him by his recently retired boss, Hutte, who welcomed him, a one-time client, into his detective agency. Guy makes full use of Hutte's files - directories, yearbooks, and papers of all kinds going back half a century - but leads to his former life are few. Could he really be that person in a photograph, a young man remembered by some as a South American attache? Or was he someone else, perhaps the disappeared scion of a prominent local family? He interviews strangers and is tantalized by half-clues until, at last, he grasps a thread that leads him through the maze of his own repressed experience."
Subjects: Fiction.; Amnesia;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Ballerina / by Modiano, Patrick,1945-author(CARDINAL)708623; Polizzotti, Marktranslator(CARDINAL)305634;
A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France--a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Autobiographical fiction.; Novels.; Dancers; Ballet; Single mothers;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Invisible ink : a novel / by Modiano, Patrick,1945-author.(CARDINAL)708623; Polizzotti, Mark,translator.(CARDINAL)305634;
The latest work from Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, Invisible Ink is a spellbinding tale of memory and its illusions. Private detective Jean Eyben receives an assignment to locate a missing woman, the mysterious Noëlle Lefebvre. While the case proves fruitless, the clues Jean discovers along the way continue to haunt him. Three decades later, he resumes the investigation for himself, revisiting old sites and tracking down witnesses, compelled by reasons he can't explain to follow the cold trail and discover the shocking truth once and for all. -Amazon.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Private investigators; Missing persons; Cold cases (Criminal investigation);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Scene of the crime : a novel / by Modiano, Patrick,1945-author.(CARDINAL)708623; Polizzotti, Mark,translator.(CARDINAL)305634;
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.
Subjects: Novels.; Memory; Fiction; Fate and fatalism;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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After the circus / by Modiano, Patrick,1945-author.(CARDINAL)708623; Polizzotti, Mark,translator.(CARDINAL)305634;
One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano's writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance. In this evocative novel the internationally acclaimed author takes up one of his most compelling themes: a love affair with a woman who disappears, and a narrator grappling with the mystery of a relationship stopped short. Set in mid-sixties Paris, After the Circus traces the relationship between the narrator, a young man not quite of legal age, and the slightly older, enigmatic woman he first glimpses at a police interrogation. The two lovers make their uncertain way into each other's hearts, but the narrator soon finds himself in the unsettling, ominous presence of others. Who are these people? Are they real, or simply evoked? Part romance, part detective story, this mesmerizing book fully demonstrates Modiano's signature use of atmosphere and suggestion as he investigates the perils and the exhilaration of young love.
Subjects: Fiction.; Man-woman relationships; French fiction;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Villa triste / by Modiano, Patrick,1945-(CARDINAL)708623; Cullen, John,1942-translator.(CARDINAL)390434;
The narrator of Villa Triste, an anxious, roving, stateless young man of eighteen, arrives in a small French lakeside town near Switzerland in the early 1960s. He is fleeing the atmosphere of menace he feels around him and the fear that grips him. Fear of war? Of imminent catastrophe? Of others? Whatever it may be, the proximity of Switzerland, to which he plans to run at the first sign of danger, gives him temporary reassurance. The young man hides among the other summer visitors until he meets a beautiful young actress named Yvonne Jacquet, and a strange doctor, René Meinthe. These two invite him into their world of soirees and late-night debauchery. But when real life beckons once again, he finds no sympathy from his new companions.
Subjects: Fiction.; Alienation (Social psychology); Identity (Psychology);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The black notebook / by Modiano, Patrick,1945-author.(CARDINAL)708623; Polizzotti, Mark,translator.(CARDINAL)305634;
"A writer's notebook becomes the key that unlocks memories of a love formed and lost in 1960s Paris. In the aftermath of Algeria's war of independence, Paris was a city rife with suspicion and barely suppressed violence. Amid this tension, Jean, a young writer adrift, met and fell for Dannie, an enigmatic woman fleeing a troubled past. A half century later, with his old black notebook as a guide, he retraces this fateful period in his life, recounting how, through Dannie, he became mixed up with a group of unsavory characters connected by a shadowy crime. Soon Jean, too, was a person of interest to the detective pursuing their case--a detective who would prove instrumental in revealing Dannie's darkest secret. The Black Notebook bears all the hallmarks of this Nobel Prize-winning literary master's unsettling and intensely atmospheric style, rendered in English by acclaimed translator Mark Polizzotti. Once again, Modiano invites us into his unique world, a Paris infused with melancholy, uncertain danger, and the fading echoes of lost love"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Romance fiction.; Authors; Nineteen sixties; Secrecy; Criminal investigation; Secrecy.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Young once / by Modiano, Patrick,1945-author.(CARDINAL)708623; Searls, Damion,translator.(CARDINAL)349172;
"Odile and Louis are leading a happy, bucolic life with their two children in the French countryside near the Swiss mountains. It is Odile's thirty-fifth birthday, and Louis's thirty-fifth birthday is a few weeks away. Then the story shifts back to their early years: Louis, just freed from his military service and at loose ends, taken up by a shady character who brings him to Paris to do some work for a friend who manages a garage; Odile, an aspiring singer, at the mercy of the kindness and unkindness of strangers. They move through a Paris saturated with the crimes and secrets of the past but breathing hopes for the future; they find each other and struggle together to create what, looking back, will have been their youth"--
Subjects: Novels.; Psychological fiction.; Romance fiction.; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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