The Occupation Trilogy: La Place De L'Etoile, The Night Watch and Ring Roads

Bloomsbury, London, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. First impression. Size: 12mo (small). 337 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges browned slightly. The book has been read and it may have some creases but is sound overall. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. 'Brisk, smart, witty, elliptical ... Recalls the directors of the New Wave ... Bracing and brilliant' Independent When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. Born in 1945, Modiano's brilliant, angry writings burst onto the Parisian literary scene and caused a storm. His first, ferociously satirical novel, La Place de l'Ã?toile , was remarkable in seriously questioning both Nazi collaboration in France and the myths of the Gaullist era. The Night Watch tells the story of a man caught between his work for the French Gestapo and for a Resistance cell. Ring Roads recounts a son's search for his Jewish father, who disappeared ten years previously. These brilliant, almost hallucinatory, evocations of the Occupation attempt to exorcise the past by exploring the morally ambiguous worlds of collaboration and resistance. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Historical fiction; France; 1940s; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781408867884. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10130. . 9781408867884