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...
Paris, 1960. Damn poets, situationists and students gather at the Caf? Cond?. Despite the nostalgia of those lost years, Modiano gives us a mystery novel about the enigmatic Louki, the daughter of a Moulin Rouge employee. Louki deals with invented identities and struggles to...