Catherine Certitude
$26.95
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
4 February 2021
Summary
A classic French story from Nobel Prize-winner Patrick Modiano and celebrated illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé.
Beautifully illustrated, this is a love letter to Paris, ballet and childhood for fans of The Little Prince, Le Petit Nicholas, and 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781783449828 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1783449829 |
| Author: | Patrick Modiano, Jean-Jacques Sempé |
| Publisher: | Andersen Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Andersen Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 4 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 145mm x 215mm |
| Audience Age: | 9-11 |
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Critics Review
“Elegant. Apparently simple and transparent nostalgia belies its sophistication of observation. Deftly characterised illustrations.” * Books for Keeps *
“What particularly engages is the way Modiano captures memories of childhood: fragmented, misunderstood, but glowing in the crucible of recollection” * Booklist *
“Really affecting” * Bookbag *
“Feather-light illustrations. This lovely book suggests the delicacy and strength of an eggshell.” * Publishers Weekly online *
“Ravishing artwork. In surrendering our old certitudes, we may win insights that make our lives more fully human and humane in the present.” * The Boston Globe *
Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano is a celebrated French novelist, author of numerous books for adults and children. His work has been translated into over 30 languages. Notable awards include the Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie Française, the Prix Goncourt and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies.’
Jean-Jacques Sempé is one of the world’s most successful illustrators and cartoonists. His work includes numerous covers of the New Yorker magazine, full-page cartoons in Paris Match, the illustrations of the classic children’s book character, Nicholas, and many albums of cartoons and graphic novels. He lives in Paris.
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