Villa triste (French Edition)

by Patrick Modiano

Overview

Un été des années soixante. Une petite ville française au bord d'un lac, près de la Suisse. Victor Chmara a dix-huit ans et se cache parce qu'il a peur. D'étranges personnages hantent cette ville d'eau, comme ce docteur que l'on surnomme La Reine Astrid...

Mais il y a surtout Yvonne, avec son dogue allemand...

Une recherche du temps perdu.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782070369539
Publisher:	Gallimard, Editions
Publication date:	10/01/1998
Series:	Folio Series
Edition description:	French-language Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.60(d)
Language:	French

About the Author

Patrick Modiano was born in the Boulogne-Billancourt suburb of Paris near the end of the Nazi occupation of France. He studied at the Lycée Henri-IV and the Sorbonne. As a teenager he took geometry lessons with the writer Raymond Queneau, who would play a key role in his development. He has written more than thirty works of fiction, including novels, children's books, and the screenplay for Louis Malle's film Lacombe, Lucien. In 2014, Modiano won the Nobel Prize in Literature.