Black Notebook - Softcover

Modiano, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0544779827 ISBN 13: 9780544779822

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2016

Synopsis

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 (Suspended Sentences

). Once again, Modiano invites us into his unique world, a Paris infused with melancholy, uncertain danger, and the fading echoes of lost love.

About this title

About the Author

PATRICK MODIANO is the author of more than twenty novels, including several bestsellers. He has won the Prix Goncourt, the Grand Prix National des Lettres, and many other honors. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.

MARK POLIZZOTTI has translated more than forty books from the French and is director of the publications program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

From the Back Cover

1960s Paris, a mysterious girl, a group of shady characters, danger . . . Modiano s folklore is set out from the beginning . . . and sheer magic follows once more. Vogue

The prose elliptical, muted, eloquent falls on the reader like an enchantment . . . No one is currently writing such beautiful tales of loss, melancholy, and remembrance. Independent

Sublime . . . [A] magnificent novel that reawakens days long past, illuminating them with a dazzling light. Elle (France)

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. Once again, Patrick Modiano invites us into his unique world, a Paris infused with melancholy, uncertain danger, and the fading echoes of lost love.

Never before has Modiano written a novel as lyrical as this . . . Both carefully wrought and superbly fluid, sustained by pure poetry. Le Monde

Patrick Modiano is the author of more than twenty novels, including several bestsellers. He has won the Prix Goncourt, the Grand Prix National des Lettres, and many other honors. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. He lives in Paris.

Mark Polizzotti has translated more than forty books from the French, including Modiano s Suspended Sentences. He is director of the publications program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0544779827
• ISBN 13: 9780544779822
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144