Little Jewel

Patrick Modiano · 2001 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

A nineteen-year-old woman in Paris thinks she sees in the Métro the mother who abandoned her, a dancer she was told had died in Morocco. She begins to follow her through the city. A late Modiano novel of pursuit and memory, spare even by his standards.

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