Pedigree

@2@"@18@It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me@19@"@3@@2@Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' post-war years, @18@Pedigree@19@ is an autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous childhood - a childhood replete with insecurity and sorrow that informed the oeuvre of France's Nobel Laureate.@3@@2@With his sometime-actress mother and shady businessman father barely functioning in any parental role, the young Modiano spent his childhood being packed off to the care of others, or held at a safe distance in a grimy boarding school - which he ran away from several times. His impecunious mother had "a heart of stone"; his womanising father once called the police when his son asked him for money, and later ceased all contact with him.@3@@2@But for all his parents' indifference, it is the death of his younger brother when Modiano is eleven that cuts deepest, leaving a wound that can never be healed.@3@

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Modiano
• Assisted by: Mark Polizzotti (Translation), Polizzotti Mark (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780857054937
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-493-7
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, France, HISTORY / Europe / France, Fiction in translation, TRAVEL / Europe / France, Autobiography: literary