PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
`Strange, wonderful and very French.' * Daily Telegraph * `A short book, that can easily be read in a single sitting, and given the mood it creates it is probably advisable to do such. This is another novel in translation that uses elusive memories and nostalgia to reveal an identity. An original voice and a decent introduction to Modiano's work.' * Messy Booker * `These novels [Paris Nocturne and Little Jewel] are not just a collection of marks on a collection of pages but a metaphysical archive of a time of complex personal and collective trauma. In Modiano, the city is a mirror, each of its streets a palimpsest. We gain access to an inner life that otherwise goes undetected.' * Australian * 'Throughout these books, Modiano tackles thoughtfully and with great imaginative sympathy, that most necessary and problematic part of the human psyche - our relationship with the past.' * Age/SMH * `Modiano is the poet of the Occupation and a spokesman for the disappeared.' * Guardian * `Little Jewel is Modiano's Madame Bovary.' * Jerome Garcin, Le Nouvel Observateur *
