Translated by Mark Polizzotti, with this his eighth Modiano, the 2014 Nobel Prize winning author considers here the destructive potential of love, the imaginative feats of youth and the workings of memory, applying his signature blend of autobiography and invention.

Internationally renowned author Patrick Modiano has received many prestigious literary awards, among them the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mark Polizzotti is the translator of more than fifty books from the French, including eight by Modiano.