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Sundays in August
Sundays in August | Patrick Modiano
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From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper stories uncomfortably close and getting closer . . . this ominous novel is Patrick Modiano’s most noirish work to date. Set in Nice—a departure from the author’s more familiar Paris—this novel evokes the bright sun and dark shadow of the Riviera. Modiano’s trademark ability to create a haunting atmosphere is here on full display: readers descend precipitously into a world of mystery, uneasiness, inevitability. A young couple in hiding keeps close watch over a notorious diamond necklace known as the Southern Cross. Its provenance is murky, its whereabouts known only to our hero and heroine, who find themselves trapped by its potential value—and its ultimate cost. Deftly Modiano reaches further and further into the past, revealing the secret histories of the two even as the pressurized present threatens to overwhelm them.
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Sundays in August | Patrick Modiano
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Definitely August Sunday vibes... Some of my reading goals, Fresh melon salad, Fresh baked keto chocolate donut, Fresh ground coffee... all on the deck. Listening to the birds and the squirrels, Watching the bees, the butterflies, and the hummers, & I can hear the boats on the lake...Zen 😊 Wishing you all a beautiful and relaxing Sunday🥰

marleed Beautiful reading goals! 3y
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Sundays in August | Patrick Modiano
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I just returned from NYC ... picked up a couple of gems.