Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for literature and an internationally beloved novelist, lives in Paris, France. Mark Polizzotti has translated more than forty books from the French and is director of the publications program at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
"Compelling . . . highly effective. . . . Mr. Modiano depends for
effect not on rhetorical declaration or emotional outburst but on
the accumulation of minor details. He is a writer unlike any other
and a worthy recipient of the Nobel."—James Campbell, Wall Street
Journal
"[Modiano’s] books . . . make up a system as beguiling and complete
as any in contemporary literature. . . . In Pedigree, his memoir of
his early life . . . he is preoccupied with the riddle of his
father."—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker
"Nobel Prize–winning author and screenwriter Patrick Modiano
recalls his post-WWII Paris youth . . . filled with the kind of
live-by-their-wits characters who inform his work."—Megan O’Grady,
Vogue
"Terse, yet somehow infinitely generous, Pedigree both enacts and
accounts for Modiano’s fraught relationship with memory and the
past—his own and those of his country. It outlines the stakes of
his literary practice and reveals the specific sufferings this
practice entails."—Kaiama L. Gloverdec, New York Times Book
Review
"In this slim but potent volume . . . [Modiano] grapples with the
ghosts of the past and the events that shaped the man and writer he
would become."—Publishers Weekly
"The only book that Modiano has explicitly identified as a memoir .
. . [Pedigree] tells us that nearly all of the fictions would be
true had the author not peopled them with his surrogates."—Joshua
Cohen, Harper’s
"This book will stay with readers long after its end and begs for
rereading. . . . Echoes of the gray, bleak, yet resilient mood of
François Truffaut’s 1959 film The 400 Blows are felt throughout,
perhaps because both works share post–World War II Paris as the
setting. . . . A truly wonderful book."—Derek Sanderson, Library
Journal (starred review)
"Quite a pedigree has this ever-more-fascinating Nobel
Prize-winner."—James Campbell, TLS
"Matter-of-fact in style and yet somehow as tantalising as his
other novels . . . [written] in the laconic, seemingly neutral
manner of a `report or resume’, well captured by translator Mark
Polizzotti . . . Modiano pins down the traumatised post-war Paris
of his youth in haunting literary snapshots."—Boyd Tonkin,
Independent
"Short, stark, and stunning."—Billy O’Callaghan, Irish Examiner
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