Sleeping memories

Author: Patrick Modiano Translation: Lotfi El-Sayed Mansour Category: Novel Number of pages: 96 pages Summary: Sleeping memories by Patrick Modiano ... The novel "Sleeping Memories" - as is usual with Patrick Modiano (Nobel 2014) - takes place in Paris neighborhoods, cafes, alleys, and cinemas. The novel follows the relationship of a young man with several women during his childhood and youth, from high school until the age of twenty-five. The hero's memories intertwine with his present, with the mother taking a central role in those memories. Characters and names appear in the hero's mind, then suddenly disappear... he forgets them and they forget him. The hero clings to trying to mend those foggy memories of places and people by writing down the names of places, people, and addresses, and following maps. While suffering from feelings of abandonment and ingratitude, he tries to awaken those sleeping memories. As for Paris, the heart of the story, it was drowning the narrator in a desire to escape and a constant sense of danger!