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description: An accident a vanishing a memory gap a strange a classic noir work of fiction by Nobel laureate Patrick ModianoThis uneasy compelling novel begins with a nighttime accident on the streets of Paris. The unnamed narrator a teenage boy is hit by a car whose driver he vaguely recalls having met before. The mysterious ensuing events involving a police van a dose of ether awakening in a strange hospital and the disappearance of the woman driver culminate in a packet being pressed into the boys hand. It is an envelope stuffed full of bank notes. The confusion only deepens as the characters grow increasingly apprehensive; meanwhile readers are held spellbound.Modianos low-key writing style his preoccupation with memory and its untrustworthiness and his deep concern with timeless moral questions have earned him an international audience of devoted readers. This beautifully rendered translation brings another of his finest works to an eagerly waiting English-language audience. Paris Nocturne has been named a perfect book by Libration  while LExpress observes  Paris Nocturne is cloaked in darkness but it is a novel that is turned toward the light.
language: English
title: Paris Nocturne
publisher: Yale University Press