A recognized master of poetic prose, Patrick Modiano builds his work according to the principle of a metaphysical detective story, where the object of investigation is the biography of our contemporaries who lose the thread of their own history amid historical upheavals. In the novel "A Little Miracle," the eighteen-year-old heroine, uncovering the secret of her birth, wanders through the labyrinths of the past in the shifting fog of new Parisian mysteries.