Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas. By Patrick Modiano. Translated by Mark Polizzotti. Yale University Press; 232 pages; $16 and £12.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukTHE Swedish Academy hailed Patrick Modiano as “a Marcel Proust of our time” when it awarded him the Nobel prize in literature last month. “That is encouraging,” the enigmatic writer said before he backed out of the limelight by announcing that he was dedicating the prize to his grandson.In his native France Mr Modiano is a household name, with 30-odd novels, children’s books, film scripts and song lyrics to his credit. His works are considered classics and can be read in 36 languages, but he is largely unknown in the English-speaking world because so little of his writing has been translated. His publishers hope the Nobel award will change that; Yale University Press has brought forward the English-language publication of “Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas” which was not due until next year.Mr Modiano’s work obsessively revisits the German occupation of France in the second world war, throwing light on some of the conflict’s murkier recesses. His early...
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