{"product_id":"the-occupation-trilogy-la-place-de-letoile-the-night-watch-ring-roads-paperback","title":"The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'Étoile - The Night Watch - Ring Roads - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick Modiano\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Watch\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eRing Roads \u003c\/i\u003erecounts 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Night Watch \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRing Roads\u003c\/i\u003e--long out of print--for our current day, and brings \u003ci\u003eLa Place de l'Étoile\u003c\/i\u003e into English for the first time. \u003ci\u003eThe Occupation Trilogy \u003c\/i\u003eprovides the perfect introduction to one of the world's greatest writers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Modiano\u003c\/b\u003e was born in the suburbs of Paris in 1945. He dedicated himself early to writing, encouraged by the writer Raymond Queneau, and won immediate acclaim with his first novel, \u003ci\u003eLa Place de l'Étoile\u003c\/i\u003e, published when he was just twenty-two. His nearly thirty books have been translated into more than forty languages. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014. He lives in Paris. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Wynne\u003c\/b\u003e is the prize-winning translator of Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, and many others.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47398615384242,"sku":"9781632863720","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/1690a50599eeb61c4f48669b54e384e5.webp?v=1778054742","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-occupation-trilogy-la-place-de-letoile-the-night-watch-ring-roads-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}