About the book: 2004 / Recognized master of poetic prose Patrick Modiano builds his work on the principle of a metaphysical detective story, where the object of investigation is the biographies of our contemporaries, who are losing the thread of their own among historical shocks history. In the novel “Little Miracle,” the eighteen-year-old heroine, unraveling the secret of her birth, wanders through the labyrinths of the past in the unsteady fog of new Parisian secrets..