A novel brimming with romance, crime, & adventure

“And if happiness consisted of the fleeting intoxication that I felt that afternoon, then for the first time in my life, I was happy.”

An aspiring young writer meets a couple visiting wintry Paris. He is a gambling addict and she dreams of traveling to Mallorca. The three form a vague love triangle, until the arrival of a mysterious man named Cartaud.

Beyond Obscurity is also the story of an obsession. A key work for discovering or rediscovering Patrick Modiano, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.