Ring Roads - Patrick Modiano

Ring Roads for which Modiano was awarded the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman (1972) is the story of a young Jew Serge in search of his father Chalva who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. He finds him trying to survive the war years in the unlikely company of black marketeers anti-Semites and putting his meagre and not entirely orthodox business skills at the service of those who have no interest in him or his survival. Ring Roads is a brilliant almost hallucinatory evocation of the uneasy corrupt years of the Occupation and like The Night Watch is both cruel and tender - savage in its depiction of the anti-Semitic newspaper editor the bullying ex-Foreign Legionnaire 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.

TITLE: Ring Roads

AUTHOR: Patrick Modiano

SKU: 9781408867938

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

DATE PUBLISHED: 12/03/2015

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 160

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 129 mm x 198 mm

WEIGHT: 119 gr