Catherine Certitude
Author(s): Patrick Modiano
A classic French story from Nobel Prize-winner Patrick Modiano and celebrated illustrator Jean-Jacques SempU. Beautifully illustrated, this is a love letter to Paris, ballet and childhood for fans of The Little Prince, Le Petit Nicholasand Madeline. Catherine lives with her gentle father, Georges Certitude, who runs a shipping business in Paris with a failed poet named Casterade. Father and daughter share the simple pleasures of daily life- sitting in the church square, walking to school, going to her ballet class every Thursday afternoon. But just why did Georges change his name to Certitude? What kind of trouble with the law did Casterade rescue him from? And why did Catherine's ballerina mother leave to return to New York?
Product Information
The only children's story by 2014's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Patrick Modiano, illustrated in full colour by celebrated artist Jean-Jacques Sempe.
"This lovely book suggests the delicacy and strength of an eggshell." Publishers Weekly "The stylish watercolour illustrations are lively, conveying the warmth and the quiet wit of the text." School Library Journal "What particularly engages is the way Modiano captures memories of childhood: fragmented, misunderstood, but glowing in the crucible of recollection" Booklist
General Fields
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- : Andersen Press
- : Andersen Press
- : 0.3
- : 30 November 2014
- : 218mm X 149mm X 12mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 April 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : 80
- : Hardback
- : Patrick Modiano
