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Black Notebook by Georges Borchardt and Patrick Modiano (2016, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100544779827

ISBN-139780544779822

eBay Product ID (ePID)219031761

Product Key Features

Book TitleBlack Notebook

Number of Pages144 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterary, Romance / General, Mystery & Detective / General

Publication Year2016

GenreFiction

AuthorGeorges Borchardt, Patrick Modiano

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight4.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-007336

Reviews"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) "Never before has Modiano written a novel as lyrical as this ... Both carefully wrought and superbly fluid, sustained by pure poetry." -- Le Monde "A compelling existential quasi-mystery ... A powerful examination of individual guilt and responsibility." -- Toronto Star "Every bit as absorbing and beguiling as anything else Modiano has written ... Awash in a seductive atmosphere." -- Electric Literature "A short but potent novel that's as elegant as Claude Rains and as sinister as Peter Lorre ... It's good that American publishers are catching up to Modiano's recent works ... An atmospheric, smoky, sepia-toned whodunit." -- Kirkus Reviews "Classic Modiano sure to engage sophisticated readers, yet the noir sensibility and hint of crime could attract a larger audience." -- Library Journal

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal843.92

SynopsisA 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., A novel set in 1960s Paris, where, in classic Modiano style, a student is drawn into contact with a criminal cell by his love for an enigmatic young woman whose dark past is only revealed decades later, 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 personof 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.

LC Classification NumberPQ2673.O3H4713 2016