ISBN:

978-9941-458-62-0

Category:

New Translations

Pages:

126

Format:

14.8x21

Cover:

Soft

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11.50

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Translated from French by Medea Chelidze

 

Patrick Modiano is one of the most renowned contemporary novelists and the recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.

 

Four narrators, a student from a miner’s high school, a private detective, the heroine herself and one of her lovers construct a portrait of the main character – Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. Young Louki left her husband quite soon after the marriage and wanders in Paris of the 1950s and 60s. It is a narrative of a difficult childhood, unsuccessful marriage and a few friends from the cafe Le Condé in the l'Odéon district.