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Fiction
by Phoebe Weston-Evans
September 2017, no. 394

So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano, translated by Euan Cameron

Quercus, $19.99 pb, 155 pp, 9780857054999

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Patrick Modiano’s most recent novel, published just before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2014, is his twenty-sixth to date, though one of a great number to arrive almost all at once in the English-speaking world. In the post-Nobel flurry to translate Modiano into English, the past two years have marked a shift in the author’s status from practically unknown to international renown.

 


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So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano, translated by Euan Cameron

Quercus, $19.99 pb, 155 pp, 9780857054999

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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