28 Paradises

Published in English for the first time, 28 Paradises is the marriage of prose and painting by Nobel-prize-winning author Patrick Modiano and his partner, the illustrator Dominique Zehrfuss. There are twenty-eight dreams in this book, or perhaps one dream in twenty-eight parts—visions of paradise imagined by Zehrfuss during a time of deep sadness. Captured first in Zehrfuss’s brightly colored gouaches, each paradise was then refashioned as a poem by Modiano.