Ballerina

A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France—a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano

“[Modiano’s] words conjure up the promise of hidden worlds.”—Tobias Grey, Financial Times

“Pithy and introspective. . . . Modiano delivers wondrous images of the tricks memory plays, sharply translated by Polizzotti.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Paris, 1960s. A young dancer and single mother, who might or might not be the narrator’s love interes...