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The Night Watch
The Night Watch | Patrick Modiano
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When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for LIterature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. The Night Watch is his second novel and tells the (…more)
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Eyejaybee
The Night Watch | Patrick Modiano
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I really did not like this book. It was self-consciously inaccessible, and I could not see why do many people have raved about Modiano. I wonder if there is a literary equivalent of the Emperor's new clothes about it, and people are wary of questioning accepted views about Huw writing. Read my goodreads review at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24911793-the-night-watch