{"product_id":"pedigree-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Pedigree: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick Modiano\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMark Polizzotti\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNobel laureate Patrick Modiano has said that his many fictions are all variations of the same story. \u003ci\u003ePedigree\u003c\/i\u003e, his memoir, is the theme.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Terse, yet somehow infinitely generous, \u003ci\u003ePedigree \u003c\/i\u003eboth enacts and accounts for Modiano's fraught relationship with memory and the past--his own and those of his country.\"--Kaiama L. Gloverdec, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early years--shadowy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes dreamlike prose that translator Mark Polizzotti captures unerringly, Modiano offers a memoir of his first twenty-one years. \"I am writing these pages the way one compiles a report or a résumé,\" he writes, \"as documentation and to have done with a life that was not my own.\" Termed one of his finest books by the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePedigree\u003c\/i\u003e is both a personal exploration and a portrait of a world gone by. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePedigree\u003c\/i\u003e sheds light on the childhood and adolescence that Modiano explores in \u003ci\u003eSuspended Sentences\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDora Bruder\u003c\/i\u003e, and other novels. In this work he re-creates the louche, unstable world of his neglectful parents under the German Occupation; his childhood in a household of circus performers and gangsters; his harsh boarding school, which catered to \"bastards, lost children\"; and his formative friendship with the writer Raymond Queneau. While acknowledging that memory is never assured, Modiano recalls with painful clarity the death of his ten-year-old brother, Rudy. \u003ci\u003ePedigree\u003c\/i\u003e, Modiano's only memoir, is a gift to his readers and a master key to the themes that have inspired his writing life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Modiano\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for literature and an internationally beloved novelist, lives in Paris, France. \u003cb\u003eMark Polizzotti \u003c\/b\u003ehas translated more than forty books from the French and is director of the publications program at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.5 x 4.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754152689952,"sku":"9780300223613","price":16.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/899177e112d4fa747fd8a78e79502e70.webp?v=1780034537","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/pedigree-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}