Die Tänzerin

A beautifully ethereal love story by Patrick Modiano. "The most delicate, graceful, and luminous of his novels." A chance encounter on the street brings back memories of a long-lost time when he, young and full of writerly ambitions, knew and perhaps loved a ballet dancer in Paris. There was her shy son Pierre, whom he cared for, the charismatic Pola Hubersen, and Serge Verzini, in whose "magic box" they met and mingled with the night figures of Paris. But who was the dancer really, and what silent bond did he share with her? Modiano tells a beautifully ethereal story of two people who leave their origins behind and can begin a new, free life.