Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano has said that his many fictions are all variations of the same story. Pedigree, his memoir, is the theme. "Terse, yet somehow infinitely generous, Pedigree both enacts and accounts for Modiano's fraught relationship with memory and the past--his own and those of his country."--Kaiama L. Gloverdec, New York Times Book Review In this rare glimpse into the life of...