Research Catalog

Title

Sundays in August / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Damion Searls.

Author

Modiano, Patrick, 1945-

Publication

• New Haven, [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2017]
• ©1986

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Searls, Damion

Description

152 pages; 20 cm

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Margellos world republic of letters book

Uniform Title

• Dimanches d'août. English
• Margellos world republic of letters book.

Alternative Title

Dimanches d'août.

Subject

• Necklaces > Fiction
• Criminals > Fiction
• Nice (France) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Noir fiction.
• Thrillers (Fiction)
• Suspense fiction
• Fiction
• Noir fiction

Note

• Originally published as Dimanches d'août, © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1986.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Awards (note)

• Nobel Prize in Literature, 2014

ISBN

• 9780300223330
• 0300223331

OCLC

• 978291318
• SCSB-10871618

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library