{"product_id":"ring-roads","title":"Patrick Modiano: Ring Roads [2015] paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe third novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, which with \u003ci\u003eThe Night Watch\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLa Place de l'Etoile\u003c\/i\u003e forms a trilogy of the Occupation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A Marcel Proust of our time'\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eModiano is the poet of the Occupation and a spokesman for the disappeared, and I am thrilled that the Swedish Academy has recognised him' \u003c\/b\u003eRupert Thomson, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRing Roads\u003c\/i\u003e, for which Modiano was awarded the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman, is the story of a young Jew, Serge, in search of his father, Chalva, who disappeared from his life ten years earlier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe finds him trying to survive the war years in the unlikely company of black marketeers, anti-Semites and prostitutes, putting his meagre and not entirely orthodox business skills at the service of those who have no interest in him or his survival. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRing Roads \u003c\/i\u003eis a brilliant, almost hallucinatory evocation of the uneasy, corrupt years of the Occupation and like \u003ci\u003eThe Night Watch\u003c\/i\u003e is both cruel and tender - savage in its depiction of the anti-Semitic newspaper editor, the bullying ex-Foreign Legionnaire and the former prostitute, who treat Chalva with ever more threatening contempt; tender in its attempt to understand and identify with the Jew who cannot see the danger he courts.","brand":"Modiano, Patrick","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47750515392851,"sku":"XV81408867938","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/modiano-patrick-ring-roads-xv81408867938-54735038579027.jpg?v=1709413695","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/ring-roads","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}