Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: Patrick Modiano’s ‘Suspended Sentences’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Suspended sentences
Discussed“unlike these three novellas the book again is suspended sentences three novellas by Patrick modiano”
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How To Be A Victorian
Discussed“the book again is how to be a Victorian a dawn to dusk guy to Victorian Life by Ruth Goodman”
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Dora Bruder
Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano is a haunting biographical novel that traces the author's real-life obsessive quest to uncover the wartime fate of a young Jewish girl who disappeared in Nazi-occupied Paris.
Discussed“one of his books books one of the few that have been translated into English is called Dora brooka”
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And the Show Went On
Discussed“also the author of the book and the show went on cultural life in Nazi occupied Paris”
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All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is a historical novel set during World War II that follows the intersecting lives of a blind French girl and a German boy.
Discussed“um that remains on the hard cover fiction list at number four the other sort of really long-standing book on the hard cover fiction list is last year's big hit”
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The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt is a sprawling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that chronicles the tumultuous life of a young boy who survives a terrorist bombing at an art museum that claims his mother's life, clinging secretly to a famous painting.
Discussed“which Alexander also spoke about The Goldfinch by Donna tart and that's hanging on at number 11 after 56 weeks on the list”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Goldfinch
“there were so many great books out you know Jane Smiley Marilyn Robinson David Mitchell but there wasn't one book that everyone was reading and everyone was talking about”