Modiano, winner of the Prix Goncourt, constructs "a haunting tale of quiet intensity" . It parallels the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and career to hole up in a Paris hotel, with that of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he'd met twenty years before, and whose mystery continues to haunt him.
Modiano, winner of the Prix Goncourt, constructs "a haunting tale of quiet intensity" . It parallels the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and career to hole up in a Paris hotel, with that of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he'd met twenty years before, and whose mystery continues to haunt him.