![]() ![]() When the book opens, the unnamed first-person narrator meets an acquaintance, Villecourt, from seven years earlier, a man he has never liked. Set in Nice, on the French Riviera, it is a perfectly paced and plotted noirish crime novella involving a photographer, his lover, her husband, a mysterious American couple - and a giant diamond known as the “Southern Cross”. ![]() Patrick Modiano’s Sundays in August is essentially a jewel heist with a difference.įirst published in 1986 under the French title Dimanches d’aout, it was translated into English - by Damion Searls in 2017 - after the author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014. Translated from the French by Damion Searls. Fiction – paperback Yale University Press 168 pages 2017. ![]()
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