Un pedigrí / Pedigree: A Memoir

by Patrick Modiano

Overview

Paris, October 1942. A couple meets during the city's occupation. Hes Jewish; she's Belgian. They marry and have two children; one of them is Patrick Modiano. They lived for twenty years in Conti, among strange characters: businessmen whose jobs are always mysterious, actresses willing to do anything, celebrities lovers, and aristocrats of questionable sexuality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788433935311
Publisher:	Anagrama
Publication date:	10/14/2014
Sold by:	Libranda
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	97 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Patrick Modiano was born in the Boulogne-Billancourt suburb of Paris near the end of the Nazi occupation of France. He studied at the Lycée Henri-IV and the Sorbonne. As a teenager he took geometry lessons with the writer Raymond Queneau, who would play a key role in his development. He has written more than thirty works of fiction, including novels, children's books, and the screenplay for Louis Malle's film Lacombe, Lucien. In 2014, Modiano won the Nobel Prize in Literature.