ARGONAUT BOOKS

Although originally published separately, Patrick 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. In this English-language translation of 'Afterimage', 'Suspended Sentences', and 'Flowers of Ruin', Mark Polizzo...Read More