So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighbourhood

@2@Jean Daragane, writer and recluse, has purposely built a life of seclusion away from the Parisian bustle. He doesn't see many people, he rarely goes out: he spends his life in a solitary world of his own making.@3@@2@His peace is shattered however, one hot September afternoon, by a threatening phone call from a complete stranger, who claims to have found Daragane's old phone book and wants to question him about a particular name it contains. But when Daragane agrees to meet the mysterious Gilles Ottolini, he realises that - try as he might - he cannot place the name "Guy Torstel" at all. Yet Ottolini is desperate for any information on this man...@3@@2@Finding himself suddenly entangled in the lives of Ottolini and his beautiful, but fragile young associate, Daragane is drawn into the mystery of a decades-old murder that will drag him out of his lonely apartment and force him to confront the memory of a long-suppressed personal trauma.@3@@2@Imbued with nostalgia, subtlety, and its own unique poetry, this darkly mysterious novel weaves a spell that provokes as much as it entrances.@3@

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Modiano
• Assisted by: Euan Cameron (Translation), Professor Euan Cameron (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780857054999
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-499-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, France, FICTION / City Life, HISTORY / Europe / France, Fiction in translation