{"product_id":"pedigree-a-memoir-9780300223613","title":"Pedigree: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eNobel laureate Patrick Modiano has said that his many fictions are all variations of the same story. \u003ci\u003ePedigree\u003c\/i\u003e, his memoir, is the theme.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Terse, yet somehow infinitely generous, \u003ci\u003ePedigree \u003c\/i\u003eboth enacts and accounts for Modiano's fraught relationship with memory and the past--his own and those of his country.\"--Kaiama L. Gloverdec, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early years--shadowy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes dreamlike prose that translator Mark Polizzotti captures unerringly, Modiano offers a memoir of his first twenty-one years. \"I am writing these pages the way one compiles a report or a résumé,\" he writes, \"as documentation and to have done with a life that was not my own.\" Termed one of his finest books by the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePedigree\u003c\/i\u003e is both a personal exploration and a portrait of a world gone by. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePedigree\u003c\/i\u003e sheds light on the childhood and adolescence that Modiano explores in \u003ci\u003eSuspended Sentences\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDora Bruder\u003c\/i\u003e, and other novels. In this work he re-creates the louche, unstable world of his neglectful parents under the German Occupation; his childhood in a household of circus performers and gangsters; his harsh boarding school, which catered to \"bastards, lost children\"; and his formative friendship with the writer Raymond Queneau. While acknowledging that memory is never assured, Modiano recalls with painful clarity the death of his ten-year-old brother, Rudy. \u003ci\u003ePedigree\u003c\/i\u003e, Modiano's only memoir, is a gift to his readers and a master key to the themes that have inspired his writing life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300223613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 4.60w x 0.50d","brand":"Patrick Modiano","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43397610078389,"sku":"9780300223613","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_13e5b2c9-c6fa-4ce7-84d7-9ff0228370d2.jpg?v=1702390805","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pedigree-a-memoir-9780300223613","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}