Villa Triste - Softcover

Patrick Modiano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907970932 ISBN 13: 9781907970931

Publisher: Daunt Books, 2016

Synopsis

One of the most original and seductive novels by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.

At the outbreak of the Algerian war, a young man who calls himself Victor Chmara flees Paris for a small lakeside town on the border of France and Switzerland.

It's here that he meets the flamboyant doctor René Meinthe and the mysterious auburn-haired Yvonne. Victor quickly embraces their world of pageants, soirees and late-night debauchery, and settles into an endless summer with Yvonne.

But René and Yvonne's lives are also full of unanswered questions and half-truths. As he looks back years later, Victor remains beguiled by those lost, unknowable friends, and the half-forgotten, enchanted place he chose to leave behind.

One of Modiano's most elegiac and haunting novels, Villa Triste is an intoxicating investigation into identity, place and memory.

About this title

Review:

'Modiano is a pure original.' --Adam Thirlwell (author of Lurid and Cute)

'A Marcel Proust of our time.' --Nobel Committee for Literature

'The prose - elliptical, muted, eloquent - falls on the reader like an enchantment, and no less so in English than in French.' --Independent

About the Author:

Patrick Modiano is a French novelist. He has written more than 30 works of fiction and his books have been translated into over 40 languages. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Daunt Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1907970932
• ISBN 13: 9781907970931
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176