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The Hardboiled Art of Patrick Modiano

Haute Noir

The Nobel-prize winner’s metaphysical mysteries relentlessly explore his own past and that of his native France, but the search for answers is never afforded an easy solution.

When Patrick Modiano was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2014, he was an almost completely unknown quantity in America, where only one of his many books was in print.

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