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|title=Catherine Certitude

|author=Patrick Modiano, Sempe (illustrator) and William Rodarmor (translator)

|publisher=Andersen

|date=December 2014

|summary=A slight and highly-illustrated piece this may be, but it's only fun to see the Nobel Prize-winner in such light and whimsical mood.

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What little I know of Patrick Modiano was gained from the number of 'no, we've never heard of him, either' articles and summaries that came our way when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the end of 2014. They suggested his oeuvre was mature, slightly thriller-based but not exclusively so, and asked lots of accumulative questions regarding identity with regard to the Vichy government during WWII. Identity is a lot more fixed in this musing little piece, for the adult voice-over looks back over a wide remove, and says there will always be a little bit of her living the events and situations of the book. Those situations are of a young dance-school attendee, and her loving and much-loved father, living a cosy life in Paris – even if the girl never once really works out what it is her father does for a living…