The black notebook
Subtitle: a novel
By: Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti
Contributors: Polizzotti, Mark, translator
Edition: First U.S. edition. First Mariner Books edition.
Publisher: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9780544779822
Subjects: Nineteen sixties; Secrecy; Criminal investigation; Authors; Fiction
Work titles: Herbe des nuits
Description: "A writer's notebook becomes the key that unlocks memories of a love formed and lost in 1960s Paris. In the aftermath of Algeria's war of independence, Paris was a city rife with suspicion and barely suppressed violence. Amid this tension, Jean, a young writer adrift, met and fell for Dannie, an enigmatic woman fleeing a troubled past. A half century later, with his old black notebook as a guide, he retraces this fateful period in his life, recounting how, through Dannie, he became mixed up with a group of unsavory characters connected by a shadowy crime. Soon Jean, too, was a person of interest to the detective pursuing their case-- a detective who would prove instrumental in revealing Dannie's darkest secret. The Black Notebook bears all the hallmarks of this Nobel Prize-winning literary master's unsettling and intensely atmospheric style, rendered in English by acclaimed translator Mark Polizzotti. Once again, Modiano invites us into his unique world, a Paris infused with melancholy, uncertain danger, and the fading echoes of lost love"--
Notes: Translation from the French of: L'herbe des nuits.