In the Café of Lost Youth - Patrick Modiano & Chris Clarke

In the Café of Lost Youth

By Patrick Modiano & Chris Clarke

  • Release Date: 2016-03-08
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 17 Ratings

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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.

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