Pedigree
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti
Contributors: Polizzotti, Mark, translator
Series: Margellos world republic of letters book; Margellos world republic of letters book
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780300215335
Subjects: French Authors; Biography
Work titles: Pedigree
Description: "In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early years--shadowy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes dreamlike prose that translator Mark Polizzotti captures unerringly, Modiano offers a memoir of his first twenty-one years. Termed one of his "finest books" by the Guardian, Pedigree is both a personal exploration and a luminous portrait of a world gone by."--Jacket flap.
Notes: Originally published as Un Pedigree. Paris : Editions Gallimard, 2005.