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A Bookshop in Berlin - The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel; Patrick Modiano (Preface by)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK WINNER OF THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE "A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever--and a reminder, in our own troubled era, never to forget." --People An "exceptional" (The Wall Street Journal) and "poignant" (The New York Times) book in the tradition of redisco ...Show more
After the Circus: A Novel by Patrick Modiano
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
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 aff ...Show more
Catherine Certitude by Patrick Modiano
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
A classic French story from Nobel Prize-winner Patrick Modiano and celebrated illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé. Beautifully illustrated, this is a love letter to Paris, ballet and childhood for fans of The Little Prince, Le Petit Nicholas and Madeline. Catherine lives with her gentle father, Georges Cer ...Show more
Catherine Certitude by Patrick Modiano
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
A classic French story from Nobel Prize-winner Patrick Modiano and celebrated illustrator Jean-Jacques SempU. Beautifully illustrated, this is a love letter to Paris, ballet and childhood for fans of The Little Prince, Le Petit Nicholasand Madeline. Catherine lives with her gentle father, Georges Certit ...Show more
In the Cafe of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Four narrators, a student from a cafe, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. The daughter of a single mother who works in the Moulin Rouge, Louki grows up in poverty in Montmart ...Show more
In the Cafe of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Four narrators, a student from a cafe, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. The daughter of a single mother who works in the Moulin Rouge, Louki grows up in poverty in Montmar ...Show more
In the Cafe of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
NYRB Classics OriginalWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"In the Cafe of Lost Youth "is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The novel, inspired in part by the circle (depi ...Show more
Little Jewel by Patrick Modiano
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
I'd tell him everything, about my mother, about Jean Borand, about the apartment near the Bois de Boulogne, and about the girl they used to call Little Jewel...The same terrifying panic that came over me in the street and woke me with a start at five in the morning. One day in the corridors of the metro ...Show more
Missing Person by Patrick Modiano
$23.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The narrator wanders the streets of Paris. He visits bars, flats, restaurants. He picks through fragments of information, old photos, partial conversations. He is trying to piece together events of which he has no memory, of something terrible that happened during the Second World War in which he is in ...Show more
Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Late at night, long ago, when I was about to turn twenty-one, I was crossing Place des Pyramides on my way to Place de la Concorde when a car appeared suddenly from out of the darkness. At first I thought it had just grazed me, then I felt a sharp pain from my ankle to my knee...In the opening scene of ...Show more
Pedigree by Patrick Modiano
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me" Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' post-war years, Pedigree is an autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous childhood - a childhood replete with insecurity and sorrow that ...Show more
Pedigree by Patrick Modiano
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Patrick Modiano's early life was defined by the remarkable loves and lives of his mercurial parents, and by a tragedy that left an indelible mark. His mother, a beautiful Belgian who settled in Paris, struggled to find steady work as an actress, and her constant touring and auditioning left little time ...Show more