NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In the Cafe 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,...
NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In the Cafe of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evo...
An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "Young Once" is a crucial book in the career of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. It was his breakthrough novel, in which he stripped away the difficulties of his earlier work and found a clear, mysteriously moving voice for his haunting stories of love, nostalgia, and grief. It has also been called the most gripping Modiano book of all ("Der Spiegel"). Odile and Louis are leading a happy, bucolic life with their two children in the French countryside near the Swiss mountains. It is Odile s thirty-fifth birthday,...
An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "Young Once" is a crucial book in the career of Nobel laureate Patrick Modi...
"Modiano is an ideal writer to gorge on . . . A moody, delectable noir." -- The New Yorker
"The best kind of mystery, the kind that never stops haunting you." -- Entertainment Weekly
"A work of melancholic beauty . . . Sincere, shattering, magnificent." -- L'Express
In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary but...
"Modiano is an ideal writer to gorge on . . . A moody, delectable noir." -- The New Yorker
"Keiner schreibt faszinierender über den Sog des Erinnerns als Patrick Modiano." (Peter Körte, F.A.Z.) - Der neue Roman des Literaturnobelpreisträgers.
"Keiner schreibt faszinierender über den Sog des Erinnerns als Patrick Modiano." (Peter Körte, F.A.Z.) - Der neue Roman des Literaturnobelpreisträg...
