Books by Patrick Modiano

1965. Guy Roland er privatdetektiv på jagt efter svar. Femten år tidligere mistede han hukommelsen i en mystisk ulykke og blev givet en ny identitet. I takt med at han graver dybere og dybere ned i sin fortid, finder han ud af, at hans rigtige navn er Jimmy Pedro Stern. Han rejser fra Frankrig til Polynesien for at lede efter en barndomskammerat, men da han når frem, er vennen forsvundet, og Guy har kun en gammel adresse som eneste spor. Patrick Modiano vandt i 1978 den prestigefyldte Prix Goncourt for romanen, som anses som et hovedværk i hans imponerende store forfatterskab. Og i 2014 blev han tildelt Nobelprisen i litteratur "for den erindringskunst, men hvilken han har fremmanet de mest uhåndgribelige menneskeskæber og afdækket besættelsens livsverden." "Inden for genren ‘det forsvundne Paris’ har Patrick Modiano næppe sin lige, og det er en ren fryd at forsvinde i byen med ham ved hånden." - Lars Bonnevie, Weekendavisen om Askeblomster

ET FORBASKET FORÅR udkom første gang på fransk i 1993. I 2014 modtog Patrick Modiano Nobelprisen i litteratur for sit samlede værk. På dansk er også udkommet ASKEBLOMSTER og SMERTEPUNKTET. Fælles for Modianos bøger er erindringen og Paris som ramme.I 1964 stifter historiens fortæller bekendtskab med fotografen Francis Jansen, der fanger et ungt par i sin kameralinse. Mindet om denne mystiske mand og deres møde kommer tilbage for at hjemsøge ham tredive år senere.

ASKEBLOMSTER er en historie om Paris, set gennem fortællerens øjne en søndag aften, hvor han går en tur i byen. De forskellige parisiske steder fremkalder minder, og en række mystiske skæbner fra fortiden vækkes til live.PATRICK MODIANO blev i 2014 tildelt Nobelprisen i litteratur "for den erindringskunst, med hvilken han har fremmanet de mest uhåndgribelige menneskeskæbner, og afdækket besættelsens livsverden.""ASKEBLOMSTER er en drømmesløret historie om fortid og identitet,, om mennesker man mødte og hvis historier, man opfattede brudstykker af. Stemningen af Paris, skyggernes Paris, er aldeles fremragende fanget."- Ekstra Bladet

Fortælleren genkalder sig nogle vigtige perioder i sit liv og forholdet til en række gådefulde kvinder. En sen aften modtager han en opringning fra en af disse kvinder der beder ham om hjælp. Der er sket “en ulykke” – hun befinder sig alene i en fremmed lejlighed med et lig og revolveren den dræbte er blevet skudt med. Da fortælleren involveres bevæger han sig ind i en tilstand hvor grænsen mellem drøm og virkelighed udviskes.Ungdommens drømme, hukommelsens lunefuldhed og tabets vemodighed beskrives svævende og poetisk i denne fortælling, der væves sammen af erindringer og gamle noter skrevet med blåt blæk.

A classic French story from Nobel Prize-winner Patrick Modiano and celebrated illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempe.Catherine lives with her gentle father, Georges Certitude, who runs a shipping business in Paris with a failed poet named Casterade.

The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano is a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and fragmented sensations

"Originally published as Libret de famille. A Editions GALLIMARD, Paris, 1977."--Title page verso.

Published in English for the first time, 28 Paradises is the marriage of prose and painting by Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano and his partner, the illustrator Dominique Zehrfuss.

Patrick Modiano, the author of more than twenty books, is one of France's most admired contemporary novelists. Out of the Dark is a moody, expertly rendered tale of a love affair between two drifters.

Jean Daragane, forfatter og eneboer, har valgt at leve et tilbagetrukket liv væk fra det hektiske Paris. Han besøger næsten aldrig andre mennesker, han går sjældent ud, han tilbringer sit liv i en isoleret verden han selv har skabt. Hans fredelige tilværelse ødelægges imidlertid en varm septembereftermiddag af et truende telefonopkald fra en komplet fremmed som hævder at have fundet Daraganes gamle adressebog og ønsker at udspørge ham om et særligt navn som står i den. Men da Daragane går med til at mødes med den mystiske Gilles Ottolini, går det op for ham at han ikke kan huske en person ved navn Guy Torstel – hvor hårdt han end prøver. Alligevel er Ottolini desperat efter at få noget at vide om denne mand. Pludselig er Daragane viklet ind i Ottolini og hans smukke men skrøbelige unge kollegas liv, og involveres i mysteriet om et mere end halvtreds år gammelt mord som vil trække ham ud af hans ensomme lejlighed og tvinge ham til at forholde sig til et personligt traume han længe har undertrykt. Gennemsyret af nostalgi, med sin diskrete finesse og sin egen unikke poesi, bjergtager denne mørke, mystiske roman ved på en gang at provokere og henrykke. PATRICK MODIANO, f. 1945, er en fransk forfatter og modtog i 2014 Nobelprisen i litteratur for sin »erindringskunst som han bruger til at fremkalde de mest uhåndgribelige menneskeskæbner og afdække livet under besættelsen«.Patrick Modianos romaner foregår oftest i og omkring Paris, men byen optræder som mere end bare kulisse, da dens atmosfære og forandring ofte spiller en væsentlig rolle i romanerne. En kritiker skrev engang: »Patrick Modiano er for Paris, hvad Woody Allen er for New York: en hukommelse og en samvittighed. «SÅ DU IKKE FARER VILD I KVARTERET er gennemsyret af nostalgi. Med sin diskrete finesse og sin egen unikke poesi bjergtager denne mørke, mystiske roman ved på en gang at provokere og henrykke.»Denne uafbrudte undersøgelse, som ifølge Modiano måske er meningsløs, ender alligevel – i Prousts ånd – med en ihærdig og fascinerende søgen efter den tabte tid.« –LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR

Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate

From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera

The elegant, haunting story of the forgotten people and places of Paris from the reigning Nobel Laureate.

A nocturnal wander through the hazes of memory and the mysteries of the past from Patrick Modiano, Nobel Laureate 2014

'Brisk, smart, witty, elliptical ... Recalls the directors of the New Wave ... Bracing and brilliant'IndependentWhen Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. Born in 1945, Modiano's brilliant, angry writings burst onto the Parisian literary scene and caused a storm.His first, ferociously satirical novel, La Place de l'Étoile, was remarkable in seriously questioning both Nazi collaboration in France and the myths of the Gaullist era. The Night Watch tells the story of a man caught between his work for the French Gestapo and for a Resistance cell. Ring Roads recounts a son's search for his Jewish father, who disappeared ten years previously. These brilliant, almost hallucinatory, evocations of the Occupation attempt to exorcise the past by exploring the morally ambiguous worlds of collaboration and resistance.

A sinister encounter leads to a forensic investigation of a writer's past - by the 2014 Nobel Laureate

An autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous childhood - by the 2014 Nobel Laureate

One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano's writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance. In this evocative novel the internationally acclaimed author takes up one of his most compelling themes: a love affair with a woman who disappears, and a narrator grappling with the mystery of a relationship stopped short. Set in mid-sixties Paris, After the Circus traces the relationship between the narrator, a young man not quite of legal age, and the slightly older, enigmatic woman he first glimpses at a police interrogation. The two lovers make their uncertain way into each other's hearts, but the narrator soon finds himself in the unsettling, ominous presence of others. Who are these people? Are they real, or simply evoked? Part romance, part detective story, this mesmerizing book fully demonstrates Modiano's signature use of atmosphere and suggestion as he investigates the perils and the exhilaration of young love.

2014 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Patrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal columns of the New Years Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir. Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl, Dora Bruder, who had run away from her Catholic boarding school, the ad sets Modiano off on a quest to find out everything he can about Dora and why, at the height of German reprisals, she ran away on a bitterly cold day from the people hiding her. He finds only one other official mention of her name on a list of Jews deported from Paris to Auschwitz in September 1942. With no knowledge of Dora Bruder aside from these two records, Modiano continues to dig for fragments from Doras past. What little he discovers in official records and through remaining family members, becomes a meditation on the immense losses of the peroidlost people, lost stories, and lost history. Modiano delivers a moving account of the ten-year investigation that took him back to the sights and sounds of Paris under the Nazi Occupation and the paranoia of the Petain regime as he tries to find connections to Dora. In his efforts to exhume her from the past, Modiano realizes that he must come to terms with the specters of his own troubled adolescence. The result, a montage of creative and historical material, is Modianos personal rumination on loss, both memoir and memorial.

In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin-represents a sterling example of the author's originality and appeal, while Mark Polizzotti's superb English-language translations capture not only Modiano's distinctive narrative voice but also the matchless grace and spare beauty of his prose.Although originally published separately, Modiano's three novellas form a single, compelling whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Modiano draws on his own experiences, blended with the real or invented stories of others, to present a dreamlike autobiography that is also the biography of a place. Orphaned children, mysterious parents, forgotten friends, enigmatic strangers-each appears in this three-part love song to a Paris that no longer exists.Shadowed by the dark period of the Nazi Occupation, these novellas reveal Modiano's fascination with the lost, obscure, or mysterious: a young person's confusion over adult behavior; the repercussions of a chance encounter; the search for a missing father; the aftershock of a fatal affair. To read Modiano's trilogy is to enter his world of uncertainties and the almost accidental way in which people find their fates.