{"product_id":"pedigree","title":"Pedigree","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' post-war years, \u003cem\u003ePedigree \u003c\/em\u003eis an autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous childhood - a childhood replete with insecurity and sorrow that informed the oeuvre of France's Nobel Laureate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith his sometime-actress mother and shady businessman father barely functioning in any parental role, the young Modiano spent his childhood being packed off to the care of others, or held at a safe distance in a grimy boarding school - which he ran away from several times. His impecunious mother had \"a heart of stone\"; his womanising father once called the police when his son asked him for money, and later ceased all contact with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut for all his parents' indifference, it is the death of his younger brother when Modiano is eleven that cuts deepest, leaving a wound that can never be healed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patrick Modiano","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45683844546607,"sku":"9780857054937","price":499.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9780857054937.jpg?v=1785161590","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/pedigree","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}