Patrick Modiano is a French novelist and recipient of the
2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He previously won the 2012 Austrian
State Prize for European Literature, the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del
Duca from the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978
Prix Goncourt for Rue des boutiques obscures, and the 1972 Grand
Prix du roman de l’Académie française for Les Boulevards de
ceinture. His works have been translated into more than forty
languages.
John Cullen was the translator of many books from Spanish,
French, German, and Italian, including Siegfried Lenz’s The
Turncoat, Juli Zeh’s Empty Hearts, Patrick Modiano’s Villa Triste,
Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation, and Philippe Claudel’s
Brodeck.
“It has taken more than 40 years for this small masterpiece by the
Nobel prize-winner to find its English translation from the
original French. The wait has been worthwhile. . . This great novel
is infused with nostalgia for a lost time, place and people so
intimately described that Victor’s memories begin to feel like our
own.” –Guardian
“A French Nobel laureate's beguiling 1975 novel about an elusive
young man's memory of love and friendship. . . Beautifully
translated by John Cullen, this novel does not dip into that
“life-world” of the French Occupation, but it does bear out the
rest of the Nobel citation in being a seductive and at times
poignant exploration of memory.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“Like all of Modiano’s novels, this is a brilliant evocation of
guilt and memory.” –Catholic Herald
"Adding more color to Modiano’s exquisite palette; highly
recommended." —Library Journal Starred Review
"Nobel Prize-winning French writer Modiano develops his
now-trademark demimonde of secrets kept and personae doffed and
donned . . . A brilliant evocation of place, memory, and loss, shot
through with an aching nostalgia." —Kirkus Reviews
“Beautifully translated by Cullen, [Villa Triste] is more
substantial and satisfying than much of what has appeared thus far
from Nobel laureate Modiano."—Booklist
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