In the Café of Lost Youth

by Patrick Modiano

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590179536
• ISBN13: 9781590179536
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.9"