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Author: Patrick Modiano Translator: Daniel Saleh Number of pages: 297 Genre: French literature Publisher: Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority Cover: Hardcover This novel consists of fifteen brief chapters It can be read as if it were interconnected short stories It is fifteen moments or fifteen main facets that form a summary of an autobiography written by Patrick Modiano, betting on density and implication, as he did in "Série" (Series), which was previously translated in this series. On these faces, events, and paradoxes, the writer continually leaves his literary imprint, shaping it here... and adding or diminishing there... Seeking more illumination. The virtue of this writing over historical treatment (despite its importance) lies in its presentation of the event and its effects on the souls, meaning that it concerns its historical authenticity on one hand and its emotional undertone on the other. What is apparent here is the history of an era that formed the crucible of the writer’s creative experience or its melting pot. He said about World War II in one of his interviews: It is the soil or the compost heap from which I emerged.