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Writing about the slippages of memory in cool, polished language, Nobel laureate Modiano always gives us stories we can't quite touch, but he does it somewhat differently every time. These recently translated novels are instructive to read together. Drawing on Modiano's boarding school experiences in the 1960s, Such Fine Boys introduces several characters recalling their lives at the prestigious but somehow creepy Valvert School outside Paris, where mostly rich children get dumped. One boy lives in a different apartment from his mother, which she's bought for him to protect he...Log In or Sign Up to Read More