01845cam a2200277 i 4500 300832089 TxAuBib 20170814120000.0 170804s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780300223330 16.00 0300223331 16.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Modiano, Patrick, 1945- Sundays in August [BOOK] / Patrick Modiano; translated from the French by Damion Searls. Patrick Modiano. Yale Univ Pr, 2017. 192 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper stories uncomfortably close and getting closer . . . this ominous novel is Patrick Modiano's most noirish work to date. Set in Nice-a departure from the author's more familiar Paris-this novel evokes the bright sun and dark shadow of the Riviera. Modiano's trademark ability to create a haunting atmosphere is here on full display: readers descend precipitously into a world of mystery, uneasiness, inevitability. A young couple in hiding keeps close watch over a notorious diamond necklace known as the Southern Cross. Its provenance is murky, its whereabouts known only to our hero and heroine, who find themselves trapped by its potential value-and its ultimate cost. Deftly Modiano reaches further and further into the past, revealing the secret histories of the two even as the pressurized present threatens to overwhelm them. 20170912. Nice (France) Fiction. Nobel Prize winning authors. Searls, Damion.