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La Place de l'Etoile (Paperback): Patrick Modiano

La Place de l'Etoile (Paperback)

Patrick Modiano; Translated by Frank Wynne

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The first novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, which with The Night Watch and Ring Roads forms a trilogy of the Occupation 'A Marcel Proust of our time' Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy 'Modiano is the poet of the Occupation and a spokesman for the disappeared, and I am thrilled that the Swedish Academy has recognised him' Rupert Thomson, Guardian Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation. We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphael Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement and self-loathing, who may be the heir to a Venezuelan fortune, may have lived during the Nazi Occupation, may have rubbed shoulders with the most notorious collaborators and anti-Semites of the time, may even have been the lover of Eva Braun... or he may have been none of these things. But at the centre of this vortex is 'La Place de l'Etoile' - the Place of the Star - which is both the geographical and moral centre of Paris, and that place next the heart where French Jews were compelled to wear the yellow star, the symbol of their persecution.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2016
Authors: Patrick Modiano
Translators: Frank Wynne
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-6795-2
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
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LSN: 1-4088-6795-8
Barcode: 9781408867952

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