"It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my
parents, did to me" Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary
characters from Paris' post-war years, Pedigree is an
autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous
childhood - a childhood replete with insecurity and sorrow that
informed the oeuvre of France's Nobel Laureate. With his
sometime-actress mother and shady businessman father barely
functioning in any parental role, the young Modiano spent his
childhood being packed off to the care of others, or held at a safe
distance in a grimy boarding school - which he ran away from
several times. His impecunious mother had "a heart of stone"; his
womanising father once called the police when his son asked him for
money, and later ceased all contact with him. But for all his
parents' indifference, it is the death of his younger brother when
Modiano is eleven that cuts deepest, leaving a wound that can never
be healed.
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