It is as a delineator of the labyrinths of human consciousness that Modiano excels. You feel the desperation with which the characters tug at the locked doors of their memories, and find yourself becoming more conscious of, and disturbed by, your own memorys lacunae.Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph
With Modiano, the repressed always returnsbut only in flickers and whispers at the edge of perception. His spare, elliptical prosetranslated again with finesse and panache by Mark Polizzotticasts its glow of mystery and menace over the tiniest detail.Boyd Tonkin, Spectator
A wry and compelling tale thats as misty and heavy with meaning as a dream; not for nothing has the author been called the Proust of our age.France Magazine
In Invisible Ink, Patrick Modiano speaks magnificently about the relationship between writing and forgetting, the strata of memory that constitute a being.Raphaėlle Leyris, Le Monde des Livres
Hauntingly memorable and evocative.Edward Ousselin, World Literature Today
Breathtakingly beautiful.Nelly Kapričlian, Les Inrockuptibles
A refined and dazzling style. . . . The end is emotionally gripping.Marie-Laure Delorme, Le Journal du Dimanche
A foggy and magnetic novel.Jérōme Garcin, LObs
Finalist for the Translation Prize, fiction category, sponsored by the French American Foundation
Praise for Patrick Modiano: Modiano combines a detectives curiosity with an elegists melancholy.Adam Kirsch, New Republic [ Modiano] is a writer unlike any other and a worthy recipient of the Nobel.James Campbell, Wall Street Journal A body of work as deft and beautiful as any in postwar European literature. . . . [ Modiano] is an excavator of memory.David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Modiano is a pure original. He has transformed the novel into a laboratory for producing atmospheres, not situationswhere everything must be inferred and nothing can be proved.Adam Thirlwell, The Guardian There are few modern writers as pleasurable or interesting to read. Modiano is one of the great writers of our time. David Herman, Jewish Chronicle
