Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

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Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas
232 pages; Yale University Press

The Winner You'll Be the First in Your Book Club to Read


If you haven't heard of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Patrick Modiano, you're not alone. His books are relatively unknown outside his native France, but his portrayals of wartime France and the 1960s read like black-and-white photographs—haunting, wistful and unforgettable. Start with the prize winner's latest novel to be translated into English, Suspended Sentences.