040 __ |a BTCTA |b eng |c BTCTA |e rda |d YDX |d BDX |d JTD |d KLP |d OCP |d XYZ |d BNG |d IGA |d HTM |d VP@ |d OCLCF |d ILC |d DLC

245 10 |a Sundays in August / |c Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Damion Searls.

500 __ |a Originally published as Dimanches d'aou?t, ? Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1986.

520 __ |a 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.

520 __ |a Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns. Nice, the Riviera. 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 them. They find themselves trapped by its potential value-- and its ultimate cost.