Sundays in August / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Damion Searls.
Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper stories uncomfortably close and getting closer ... this ominous novel is Patrick Modiano's most noirish work to date. Set in Nice--a departure from the author's more familiar Paris--this novel evokes the bright sun and dark shadow of the Riviera. Modiano's trademark ability to create a haunting atmosphere is here on full display: readers descend precipitously into a world of mystery, uneasiness, inevitability. A young couple in hiding keeps close watch over a notorious diamond necklace known as the Southern Cross. Its provenance is murky, its whereabouts known only to our hero and heroine, who find themselves trapped by its potential value--and its ultimate cost. Deftly Modiano reaches further and further into the past, revealing the secret histories of the two even as the pressurized present threatens to overwhelm them.
Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns. Nice, the Riviera. A young couple in hiding keeps close watch over a notorious diamond necklace known as the Southern Cross. Its provenance is murky, its whereabouts known only to them. They find themselves trapped by its potential value-- and its ultimate cost.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780300223330
- ISBN: 0300223331
- Physical Description: 152 pages ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: New Haven, [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Originally published as Dimanches d'août, © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1986.
- Awards Note:
- Nobel Prize in Literature, 2014
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- Noir fiction.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC MODIANO (Text) | 36015000332730 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Swansboro Branch Library | FIC MODIANO (Text) | 36015001105093 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper stories uncomfortably close and getting closer ... this ominous novel is Patrick Modiano's most noirish work to date. Set in Nice--a departure from the author's more familiar Paris--this novel evokes the bright sun and dark shadow of the Riviera. Modiano's trademark ability to create a haunting atmosphere is here on full display: readers descend precipitously into a world of mystery, uneasiness, inevitability. A young couple in hiding keeps close watch over a notorious diamond necklace known as the Southern Cross. Its provenance is murky, its whereabouts known only to our hero and heroine, who find themselves trapped by its potential value--and its ultimate cost. Deftly Modiano reaches further and further into the past, revealing the secret histories of the two even as the pressurized present threatens to overwhelm them.
Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns. Nice, the Riviera. A young couple in hiding keeps close watch over a notorious diamond necklace known as the Southern Cross. Its provenance is murky, its whereabouts known only to them. They find themselves trapped by its potential value-- and its ultimate cost.
Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns. Nice, the Riviera. A young couple in hiding keeps close watch over a notorious diamond necklace known as the Southern Cross. Its provenance is murky, its whereabouts known only to them. They find themselves trapped by its potential value-- and its ultimate cost.
