{"product_id":"9781632863720","title":"The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'Etoile - 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\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'Étoile?' 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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'Étoile\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50066262851824,"sku":"9781632863720","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781632863720_p0.jpg?v=1784746336","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781632863720","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}