Ballerina
ααααΆ 2025 Β· Yale University Press
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A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in Franceβa novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano
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βPithy and introspective. . . . Modiano delivers wondrous images of the tricks memory plays, sharply translated by Polizzotti. . . . Readers will savor this wistful narrative.ββPublishers Weekly (starred review)
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Paris, 1960s. A young dancer and single mother, who might or might not be the narratorβs love interest, is revisited by menacing figures from her past, even as she tries to escape that past through her art. Set in the shimmering world of the Paris ballet, a world populated by giants such as Balanchine and Nureyev, Ballerina revisits the themes of memory, desire, and ineffable danger that have become hallmarks of Patrick Modianoβs fiction.
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Focusing on the dancerβs troubled relations with her young son, her enigmatic involvement with the narrator, her mysterious past entanglements, and the tension between the narratorβs past and present selves, Modianoβs new novel is both a nostalgic evocation of the world gone by and a haunting exploration of time lost and regained.
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In deceptively weightless prose, deftly translated by Mark Polizzotti, Patrick Modiano interrogates the clash of current and vanished realities, the paradox of growing older, and the spectral persistence of love.
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βPithy and introspective. . . . Modiano delivers wondrous images of the tricks memory plays, sharply translated by Polizzotti. . . . Readers will savor this wistful narrative.ββPublishers Weekly (starred review)
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Paris, 1960s. A young dancer and single mother, who might or might not be the narratorβs love interest, is revisited by menacing figures from her past, even as she tries to escape that past through her art. Set in the shimmering world of the Paris ballet, a world populated by giants such as Balanchine and Nureyev, Ballerina revisits the themes of memory, desire, and ineffable danger that have become hallmarks of Patrick Modianoβs fiction.
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Focusing on the dancerβs troubled relations with her young son, her enigmatic involvement with the narrator, her mysterious past entanglements, and the tension between the narratorβs past and present selves, Modianoβs new novel is both a nostalgic evocation of the world gone by and a haunting exploration of time lost and regained.
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In deceptively weightless prose, deftly translated by Mark Polizzotti, Patrick Modiano interrogates the clash of current and vanished realities, the paradox of growing older, and the spectral persistence of love.
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Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, in 1945, and published his first novel, La Place de lβEtoile, in 1968. His previous books include Invisible Ink, Sleep of Memory, and Family Record. He lives in Paris. Mark Polizzotti has translated more than sixty books from the French. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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