Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas (Audiobook)

from RandyMetcalfe

These three short novellas — “Afterimage,” “Suspended Sentences,” and “Flowers of Ruin” — originally published over a five year period in the 1990s, share a mood of wistful nostalgia, fleeting and uncertain memory, with an undercurrent of menace. Modiano appears to draw upon his own life, especia...

from Hebephrene

My first foray with Modiano. Highly seductive voice who gives us Paris after the war. Are we reading a detective story? The main character is looking for clues, his parents are away or arrested and he has been left in the hands of some shady but fascinating characters. Years later he tries to pie...

from bluepigeon

Thanks to Yale University Press and NetGalley for a free copy of Suspended Sentences in exchange for my honest review. There are many similarities among the three novellas in Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas, thus the thematic aggregation makes sense. However, I would have rated the book high...

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SUSPENDED SENTENCES: THREE NOVELLAS, by Patrick Modiano. Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti. Although the three novellas presented here were published separately over a five year period, they blend easily and seamlessly into a unified story of one man's life, from his troubled and un...

from Hagelstein

Memory and loss haunt these three novellas. The three narrator's memories of Paris as boys or younger men are of a city that no longer exists intact. “All those streets were wiped off the map when they built the peripherique, taking with them all their garages and their secrets.” In the title no...