{"product_id":"9780544784161","title":"The Black Notebook","description":"\u003cb\u003eA writer's notebook becomes the key that unlocks memories of a love formed and lost in 1960s Paris.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the aftermath of Algeria's war of independence, Paris was a city rife with suspicion and barely suppressed violence. Amid this tension, Jean, a young writer adrift, met and fell for Dannie, an enigmatic woman fleeing a troubled past. A half century later, with his old black notebook as a guide, he retraces this fateful period in his life, recounting how, through Dannie, he became mixed up with a group of unsavory characters connected by a shadowy crime. Soon Jean, too, was a person of interest to the detective pursuing their case--a detective who would prove instrumental in revealing Dannie's darkest secret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Black Notebook \u003c\/i\u003ebears all the hallmarks of this Nobel Prize–winning literary master's unsettling and intensely atmospheric style, rendered in English by acclaimed translator Mark Polizzotti (\u003ci\u003eSuspended Sentences\u003c\/i\u003e). Once again, Modiano invites us into his unique world, a Paris infused with melancholy, uncertain danger, and the fading echoes of lost love.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101837017328,"sku":"9780544784161","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544784161_p0.jpg?v=1769895753","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544784161","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}