La Place de l'Etoile

The first novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, which with The Night Watch and Ring Roads forms a trilogy of the Occupation

''A Marcel Proust of our time'' Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy
''Modiano is the poet of the Occupation and a spokesman for the disappeared, and I am thrilled that the Swedish Academy has recognised him'' Rupert Thomson, Guardian

Modiano’s debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation...