Sundays in August / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Damion Searls.
| Author/creator | Modiano, Patrick, 1945- author. |
| Other author | Searls, Damion translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017] |
| Copyright Date | ©2017 |
| Description | 152 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Dimanches d'août. English |
| Series | Margellos world republic of letters book Margellos world republic of letters book. ^A1054502 |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General note | Originally published as Dimanches d'août, © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1986. |
| Awards note | Nobel Prize in Literature, 2014 |
| Genre/form | Noir fiction. |
| Genre/form | Thrillers (Fiction) |
| Genre/form | Noir fiction. |
| Genre/form | Suspense fiction. |
| ISBN | 9780300223330 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0300223331 (paperback) |