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Patrick Modiano was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. Born in 1945, Modiano burst onto the Parisian literary scene with these three dazzling, angry and mysterious novels.
His debut, the ferociously satirical La Place de l'Étoile, was remarkable in being the first to seriously question Nazi collaboration in France. The Night Watch tells the story of a man caught between his work for the French Gestapo and for a Resistance cell. Ring Roads recounts a son's search for his missing Jewish father.
These brilliant, almost hallucinatory, evocations of the Occupation attempt to exorcise the past by exploring the morally ambiguous worlds of collaboration and resistance.
ISBN:9781408867884
