"Parental callousness is nowhere analyzed with such empathy and nuance as in
Such Fine Boys . . . a study in the varieties of self-absorption, or carelessness, and a reckoning of its costs."–Robyn Creswell,
New York Review of Books "Could a generation be lost if they were never wanted in the first place? . . . [
Such Fine Boys] gently indicts the duplicity and futility of an entire generation . . . J. M. G. Le Clézio, another French Nobel laureate, says it best in his foreword: 'This is at once the clearest, the purest, and the most complex' of Modiano's novels."–Michael Autrey,
Booklist (starred review)