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Originally published as Dimanches d'août, © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1986.
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.
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Margellos world republic of letters book.
PUBLISHED
New Haven, [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: 152 pages ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780300223330
0300223331
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Searls, Damion,
SUBJECTS
Necklaces -- Fiction.
Criminals -- Fiction.
Nice (France) -- Fiction.
Noir fiction.
Suspense fiction.