{"product_id":"the-occupation-trilogy-la-place-de-ltoile-the-night-watch-ring-roads-9781632863720","title":"The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'Étoile - The Night Watch - Ring Roads","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn at the close of World War II, 2014 Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano was a young man in his twenties when he burst onto the Parisian literary scene with these three brilliant, angry novels about the wartime Occupation of Paris. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe epigraph to his first novel, among the first to seriously question Nazi collaboration in France, reads: In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man and says: 'Excuse me, monsieur, where is La Place de l' toile?' The young man points to the star on his chest. The second novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Watch\u003c\/i\u003e, tells the story of a young man caught between his work for the French Gestapo, his work for a Resistance cell, and the black marketeers whose milieu he shares. \u003ci\u003eRing Roads \u003c\/i\u003erecounts a son's search for his Jewish father who disappeared ten years earlier, whom he finds trying to weather the war in service to unsavory characters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether these three brilliant, almost hallucinatory evocations of the Occupation attempt to exorcise the past by exploring the morally ambiguous worlds of collaboration and resistance. Award-winning translator Frank Wynne has revised the translations of \u003ci\u003eThe Night Watch \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRing Roads\u003c\/i\u003e--long out of print--for our current day, and brings \u003ci\u003eLa Place de l' toile\u003c\/i\u003e into English for the first time. \u003ci\u003eThe Occupation Trilogy \u003c\/i\u003eprovides the perfect introduction to one of the world's greatest writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632863720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015 pg. 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/07\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/05\/2015 pg. 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/13\/2015 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Patrick Modiano","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37890665119925,"sku":"9781632863720","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b96bc232-dcd5-4694-bba5-4da519547851.jpg?v=1607657739","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-occupation-trilogy-la-place-de-ltoile-the-night-watch-ring-roads-9781632863720","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}