"A hauntingly fetching book."--Kirkus Reviews

"The memory of its poignant passages may remain with a reader forever."--Boston Globe

"Modiano makes us hear in the first person, very distinctly, his own literary voice--clear, beautiful, and true--in speech and memory that never falter."--Le Nouvel Observateur

"One day, Patrick Modiano felt himself to be 'someone else': he had begun to read the 'Memorial of the deportation of French Jews' established by Serge Klarsfeld. That was in 1978. 'At first, I doubted literature, ' says Modiano, 'for, since the principal engine of literature is memory, it seemed to me that the sole book that could be written was this memorial.'"--From L'Expres