So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood

from GarySeverance

Patrick Modiano has written more than 20 novels and has received multiple awards for his writing. In 2014, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood, wonderfully translated from the French by Euan Cameron, Modiano gives the reader a view of life in Paris t...

from jon1lambert

Nobel prize winner 2014 - hooray! My wife asked me what this book was about. It's about all the things that Modiano's books are always about, I replied. That's why it's so good. It's about a woman called Annie Astrand who once looked after the narrator when he was a boy. The return of a lost addr...

from Hagelstein

A man named Jean Daragane recalls his rootless childhood, some of which was spent with a woman named Annie Astrand. Time fluctuates in the story, and he is sometimes thrust back to when he was a younger man, having written his first novel and searching for traces of Annie. A central question in M...

from rmckeown

In his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in 2014, Patrick Modiano has spun an absorbing tale of mystery and suspense. He is a French novelist who also won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2012 and the 2010 Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institute of France for life...

from bostonbibliophile

I'm beginning to think Modiano's books just aren't my cup of tea. All that oblique hinting, the subtlety, the innuendo. Just tell me what's going on already! I feel like I'm supposed to like this, I'm supposed to think it's profound and layered and amazing and maybe it is, maybe I just don't have...