{"product_id":"9781632863737","title":"The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'Étoile - The Night Watch - Ring Roads","description":"When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature, he was praised for using the \"art of memory\" to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. Born just after the war, Modiano was an angry young man in his twenties when he wrote these three brilliant, angry novels, bursting onto the Parisian literary scene and causing a storm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe epigraph to his ambitious first novel, among the first to seriously question both wartime collaboration in France and the myths of the Gaullist era, reads: \"\u003ci\u003eIn 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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \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 informing on the police, and the black market dealers whose seedy milieu he shares. \u003ci\u003eRing Roads \u003c\/i\u003erecounts Serge's search for his father, who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. He finds him trying to survive the war years in the unlikely company of petty criminals, anti-Semites, and prostitutes, putting his meager business skills to the service of those who have no interest in him or his survival. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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'Etoile\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.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152036741360,"sku":"9781632863737","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781632863737_p0.jpg?v=1763675147","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781632863737","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}