Modiano’s deceptive simplicity, where straightforward sentences conceal deeper and complex meanings, is also utterly spellbinding, and in this novella about an initially amoral double agent who works for both the Resistance and the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied Paris purely for his own benefit, he spins a particularly sticky and discomforting web
Glasgow Sunday Herald
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Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy
Modiano is a pure original
Adam Thirlwell
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
From the satirical portrayal of anti-Semitism in his debut novel [La Place de l’Étoile] to later books such as The Search Warrant and Missing Person (winner of the 1978 Prix Goncourt), the Occupation shapes much of Modiano’s work
Boyd Tonkin, Independent
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