In the Café of Lost Youth
Patrick Modiano$13.56
$15.95
NYRB Classics Original
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
In the Caf 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 03/08/2016
ISBN: 9781590179536
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.50d
Review Citations: Library Journal 01/01/2016 pg. 92
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2016
Shelf Awareness 03/22/2016
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
In the Caf 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 03/08/2016
ISBN: 9781590179536
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.50d
Review Citations: Library Journal 01/01/2016 pg. 92
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2016
Shelf Awareness 03/22/2016