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Phoebe Weston-Evans — Longlisted, PEN Translation Prize, US, 2016Late at night, long ago, when I was about to turn twenty-one, I was crossing Place des Pyramides on my way to Place de la Concorde when a car appeared suddenly from out of the darkness. At first I thought it had just grazed me, then I felt a sharp pain from my ankle to my knee...This uneasy, compelling novel begins with a nighttime accident on the streets of Paris. The unnamed narrator, a teenage boy, is hit by a car whose driver he vaguely recalls having met before. The mysterious ensuing events, involving a police van, a dose of ether, awakening in a strange hospital, & the disappearance of the woman driver (Jacqueline Beausergent), culminate in a packet being pressed into the boy’s hand. It is an envelope stuffed full of bank notes. Does Jacqueline Beausergent have the answers to the narrator’s questions about the past, about his father? He will comb the city’s cafes & stations to find her.The confusion only deepens as the characters grow increasingly apprehensive; meanwhile, readers are held spellbound. Paris Nocturne is like a mystery novel in which we are searching for the crime itself, as Modiano relentlessly e

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Author

Patrick Modiano, Phoebe Weston-Evans (translation)

Publisher

Yale University Press ; The Text Publishing Company

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300215885

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.35 / 5 (348 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14