| ISBN |
9781408867907 (hardback) |
| Name |
Modiano, Patrick, 1945- author. |
| Title |
The occupation trilogy : La place de l'etoile ; The night watch ; Ring roads / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Caroline Hiller, Patricia Wolf and Frank Wynne. |
| Published |
London : Bloomsbury, 2015. |
| ©2015 |
| Description |
336 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Summary |
When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the art of memory to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. Born just after the war, Modiano was an angry young man in his twenties when these three brilliant, angry novels burst onto the Parisian literary scene and caused a storm. The Night Watch tells the story of a young man, caught between his work for the French Gestapo, his work for a Resistance cell informing on the police and the black market dealers whose seedy milieu he shares. Ring Roads recounts Serge's search for his father, who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. He finds him trying to survive the war years in the unlikely company of spivs, anti-Semites and prostitutes, putting his meagre business skills at the service of those who have no interest in him or his survival. These brilliant, almost hallucinatory evocations of the Occupation, attempt to exorcise the past by exploring the morally ambiguous worlds of collaboration and resistance. |
| Language note |
Translated from the French. |
| Subjects |
Modiano, Patrick, -- 1945- Translations into English |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Fiction |
| French fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English |
| War stories |
| France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction |
| Paris (France) -- History -- 1940-1944 -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Historical fiction |
| Other Names |
Hiller, Caroline translator. |
| Wolf, Patricia translator. |
| Wynne, Frank translator. |
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