Status Updates From Sonntage im August

Looking at a short stack of Modiano novels I managed to find second, wondering which one to read first. being as it's a Sunday in August... Great first chapter!

All around me men and women, stiff as mummies, drank their tea in silence, eyes fixed on the Promenade des Anglais. Maybe they, too, were on the lookout for silhouettes from their past amid this crowd passing before their eyes.