Little Jewel
$25.89
- Paperback
168 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2015
Summary
I’d tell him everything, about my mother, about Jean Borand, about the apartment near the Bois de Boulogne, and about the girl they used to call Little Jewel…The same terrifying panic that came over me in the street and woke me with a start at five in the morning.
One day in the corridors of the metro, nineteen-year-old Thérèse sees a woman in a yellow coat. Could this be her mother? Who called her Little Jewel? But didn’t her mother die in Morocco years earlier? She follows the woman…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925240115 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925240118 |
| Author: | Patrick Modiano |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 228g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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Critics Review
’ Little Jewel is Modiano’s Madame Bovary .’
‘Little Jewel is Modiano’s Madame Bovary.’ * Jérôme Garcin, Le Nouvel Observateur *
‘Modiano is the poet of the Occupation and a spokesman for the disappeared.’ * Guardian *
‘Throughout these books, Modiano tackles thoughtfully and with great imaginative sympathy, that most necessary and problematic part of the human psyche – our relationship with the past.’ * Age/SMH *
‘These novels [Paris Nocturne and Little Jewel] are not just a collection of marks on a collection of pages but a metaphysical archive of a time of complex personal and collective trauma. In Modiano, the city is a mirror, each of its streets a palimpsest. We gain access to an inner life that otherwise goes undetected.’ * Australian *
‘A short book, that can easily be read in a single sitting, and given the mood it creates it is probably advisable to do such. This is another novel in translation that uses elusive memories and nostalgia to reveal an identity. An original voice and a decent introduction to Modiano’s work.’ * Messy Booker *
‘Strange, wonderful and very French.’ * Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
Patrick Modiano
Born in Paris in 1945, Patrick Modiano has published over thirty novels, as well as the screenplay for Lacombe Lucien, and a number of children’s books. He has won many prizes, including the 2014 Nobel Prize.
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