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Suspended sentences : three novellas / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti.

by Modiano, Patrick, 1945-

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Yale University Press, c2014.

Margellos world republic of letters book.

9780300198058 (trade pbk.)

0300198051 (trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

Suspended sentences.

Flowers of ruin.

xiii, 213 p. ; 20 cm.

Originally published in French as: Chien de printemps, (1993); Remise de peine, (1988); and, Fleurs de ruine, (1991).

Afterimage -- Suspended sentences -- Flowers of ruin.

This trilogy of novellas reaches back in time. Although originally published separately, 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. Shadowed by the dark period of the Nazi Occupation, these novellas reveal Modiano's fascination with the lost, obscure, or mysterious: a young person's confusion over adult behavior; the repercussions of a chance encounter; the search for a missing father; the aftershock of a fatal affair.

French fiction -- Translations into English.

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