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So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood Hardcover – September 15, 2015

by Patrick Modiano (Author), Euan Cameron (Translator)
3.1 3.1 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
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A haunting novel of suspense from the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature

In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary but irresistibly curious. Almost at once, he finds himself entangled with a shady gambler and a beautiful, fragile young woman, who draw Daragane into the mystery of a decades-old murder. The investigation will force him to confront the memory of a trauma he had all but buried.  With So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood Patrick Modiano adds a new chapter to a body of work whose supreme psychological insight and subtle, atmospheric writing have earned him worldwide renown — including the Nobel Prize in Literature. This masterly novel, now translated into twenty languages, penetrates the deepest enigmas of identity and compels us to ask whether we ever know who we truly are.
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    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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    September 15, 2015
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"Modiano is an ideal writer to gorge on ... in part because [his books] make up a system as beguiling and complete as any in contemporary literature ... [So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood] set[s] up a moody, delectable noir."—The New Yorker

"A suspenseful inquiry into memory and storytelling, including the stories we tell ourselves about our own lives. It’s the best kind of mystery, the kind that never stops haunting you. A–."—Entertainment Weekly

"[Modiano's] fiction resonates so deeply [because] it occupies an elusive middle ground between place and personality ... Resonant ... Compelling."—Los Angeles Times

"Euan Cameron's atmospheric translation does ample justice to this spectral tale."—Independent

"There is intrigue, there are missing persons, there are affairs of the heart and body ... The beauty of [Modiano's] prose shines once again in this deep, short read."—Paste

"Moody ... Lyrical ... Vintage Modiano, and a pleasure for fans of neonoir fiction."—Kirkus Reviews

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A haunting novel of suspense from an acclaimed literary master

In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary but irresistibly curious. Almost at once, he finds himself entangled with a shady gambler and a beautiful, fragile young woman who draw Daragane into the mystery of a decades-old murder. The investigation will lead him to confront the memory of a trauma he had all but buried.

With So You Don t Get Lost in the Neighborhood, his first publication since winning the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature, Patrick Modiano adds a new chapter to a body of work whose supreme psychological insight and subtle, atmospheric writing have earned him worldwide renown. This intense, sinuous novel, now translated into twenty-five languages, penetrates the deepest enigmas of identity and compels us to ask whether we ever know who we truly are.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition (September 15, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 054463506X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0544635067
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.1 3.1 out of 5 stars 189 ratings

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Jean Patrick Modiano (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɑ̃ paˈtʁik ˌmɔdjaˈno]; born 30 July 1945) 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 30 languages and have been celebrated in and around France, but most of his novels had not been translated into English before he was awarded the Nobel Prize.

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Jacob Feldman
3.0 out of 5 stars Failure to connect past events with the present
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2015
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This is the second of Patrick Modiano's novels that I have read. I did not enjoy it. Missing Persons was much better. The novel read like it was written in one evening with snipets of past events very very disconnected. The novel had no real ending and when I finished reading it, I wondered why I started. Relating current events with the past is often very effective as it is in Robert Goddard's novels, but here the novel is so short that although past events are described, there is no real attempt to connect these events with what is current. The reader is left unsatisfied wishing that the novel was much longer and that there was a better tie-in of the past with the present.
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lucille Friesen King-Edwards
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully evocative.
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2016
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Your descriptive adjectives are largely inapplicable to this book. It is a meditation, albeit a somewhat surrealistic one, on the loss of memory and how it is returned through fragmented incidents and characters--an anti Remembrance of Things Past. Deliberately vague but in certain details repeatedly precise, in the final pages everything, except the two characters who first interact with the main character, are revealed. They, the male and female characters, seemed to have acted as deus ex machina, or solely as "fifth business" as one might expect to happen in a dream. Wonderfully evocative .
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Steve Zousmer
1.0 out of 5 stars Unbearable.
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2015
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This book has no sex or violence, no drama or comedy, no love or hate or warmth or charm, no plot or story line, no likable or dislikable characters, no mystery or provocation, no vivid scenes, no coherence, there’s nothing at stake and no apparent meaning to anything. The time dimension is confusing and you don’t know if he’s remembering things or if they’re happening now; characters from his past have the same names as current characters; a girl named Annie is a vague and distant memory until she’s no longer vague and might be his mother and may have gone to jail or been murdered in an ugly flat but it doesn’t matter because you don’t care. There are also signs that it’s a very poor translation.
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Shelby
2.0 out of 5 stars I'm tempted to read other reviews so as to be schooled in what I've missed ("You poor soul; you don't appreciate genius
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2016
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How dare one criticize, even mock, a Nobel prize winning author, right? My review must condemn myself, not the author. I guess that I just don't "get it," right? Yet this is just another book that mostly proclaims the novel is dead; you don't have to write anything that makes much sense; time and order mean nothing (I guess those are products of imagination, but it's reality that has no order, sequence, sensible nature, etc., I suppose); and characters can be introduced and then just made to disappear, or reintroduced as if they'd not been introduced before and details can be repeated - well, I do sort of "get" that, as its the narrator/protagonist who is constantly wrestling with memories and forgetfulness and repression in his own mind (yet the book sometimes has the point of view of the omniscient observer, and sometimes almost a kind of first person stream of consciousness, but then I guess point of view is dead if the novel itself is dead).Then there's the issue of switching between three very distant time periods in the man's life without warning - OK, more genius, I suppose. Yeah, that's never been done before (it's just hard not be facetious). Giving the author the benefit of the doubt for the moment, though, this appears to be a book about memory, repression and the corrosive effects of time. Yes, it's all in there - memories - and you just need cues and prompts to jar your memory. But even that seems banal, hardly original. I think the book is little more than an exploration of time and memory, maybe feelings for one's own childhood (it does seem unfair that we all remember so little of our childhoods, that is, it that the point of this book, but that's only if there is a point) and, if so, it's not done very well. I haven't read up on the author's biography but perhaps he's just giving us a diary, an exploration of his own issues (more originality, sure; more facetious comment from me) only written well after the events depicted. If so, that's literature today? That's it? Not memoir, but .... write it however you want? Well, if the novel is dead, then why not? Ultimately, the point is that the author should get no credit, no kudos, no nothing, unless whatever he's doing is done well. He's not a brave writer if he's a failed writer ... yet he's won the Nobel Prize! I'm tempted to read other reviews so as to be schooled in what I've missed ("You poor soul; you don't appreciate genius,") or something like that. Oh, about the translation - I don't speak French - but this reads like a literal translation, almost artless. And as for being set in Paris - unless you know Paris well, all he's giving us is street names and landmarks. People who know Paris and love Paris may feel they are inside Paris while reading this book, but there is almost no description of the city offered at all. The author's references to streets and places in the city are little more than a map. And about the publisher - the word "neighbourhood" is given the British spelling throughout the book, yet the dust jacket and spine have the American spelling. So much for literacy and erudition at Houghton Mifflin, the publisher. I feel I've been used not only by the author and publisher, but all the literati who need to identify someone as great, and have simply elected this author to be cast as a great author, not because he is great, but because if you are someone who recognizes greatness then you are great yourself, and everyone else is a dunce, like me.
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