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In the Café of Lost Youth

By Patrick Modiano

In the Café of Lost Youth Historical Fiction

In the Café of Lost Youth

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NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In the Café of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The novel, inspired in part by the circle (depicted in the photographs of Ed van der Elsken) of the notorious and charismatic Guy Debord, centers on the enigmatic, waiflike figure of Louki, who catches everyone's attention even as she eludes possession or comprehension. Through the eyes of four very different narrators, including Louki herself, we contemplate her character and her fate, while Modiano explores the themes of identity, memory, time, and forgetting that are at the heart of his spellbinding and deeply moving art.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
118
Release Date:
2016-03-08
Publication Date:
2016-03-08
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1590179536
ISBN13:
9781590179536
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
153 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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