Flowers of Ruin

New book in Patrick Modiano's "essential trilogy." On April 24, 1933, two young couples commit suicide in their Paris apartment. That night, they had reportedly met with several people and gone dancing. Thirty years later, the narrator tries to reconstruct their story, which seems to intersect with his own. Each question raises others, like an echo, along the course of ghostly wanderings through Paris, of memories that return to mind... "Remission of Penance," "Flowers of Ruin," and "Spring of a Dog" are independent stories but form the "essential trilogy" of Patrick Modiano's work. • Patrick Modiano was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014 and has won several other prizes in France, such as the Goncourt and the Grand Prix du Roman from the French Academy.