The occupation trilogy : La Place de l'Étoile, The night watch, Ring roads
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New York : Bloomsbury, 2015.
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1632863723, 9781632863720
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Glen Ellyn Public Library - Adult FictionFIC MODIANO, PATRICKOn Shelf
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury, 2015.
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Book
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xi, 336 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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1632863723, 9781632863720

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Born at the close of World War II, 2014 Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano was a young man in his twenties when he burst onto the Parisian literary scene with these three brilliant, angry novels about the wartime Occupation of Paris. The epigraph to his first novel, among the first to seriously question Nazi collaboration in France, reads: "In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man and says: 'Excuse me, monsieur, where is La Place de l'Étoile?' The young man points to the star on his chest." The second novel, The Night Watch , tells the story of a young man caught between his work for the French Gestapo, his work for a Resistance cell, and the black marketeers whose milieu he shares. Ring Roads recounts a son's search for his Jewish father who disappeared ten years earlier, whom he finds trying to weather the war in service to unsavory characters. Together these three brilliant, almost hallucinatory evocations of the Occupation attempt to exorcise the past by exploring the morally ambiguous worlds of collaboration and resistance. Award-winning translator Frank Wynne has revised the translations of The Night Watch and Ring Roads --long out of print--for our current day, and brings La Place de l'Étoile into English for the first time. The Occupation Trilogy provides the perfect introduction to one of the world's greatest writers.
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La Place de l'Étoile originally published:,Paris : Éditions Gallimard, 1968.
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The night watch originally published:,Paris : Éditions Gallimard, 1969.
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Ring roads originally published:,Paris : Éditions Gallimard, 1972.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Modiano, P., Hillier, C., Wolf, P., & Wynne, F. (2015). The occupation trilogy: La Place de l'Étoile, The night watch, Ring roads (First U.S. edition.). Bloomsbury.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Patrick Modiano et al.. 2015. The Occupation Trilogy: La Place De L'Étoile, The Night Watch, Ring Roads. Bloomsbury.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Patrick Modiano et al.. The Occupation Trilogy: La Place De L'Étoile, The Night Watch, Ring Roads Bloomsbury, 2015.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Modiano, Patrick, Caroline Hillier, Patricia Wolf, and Frank Wynne. The Occupation Trilogy: La Place De L'Étoile, The Night Watch, Ring Roads First U.S. edition., Bloomsbury, 2015.

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