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In the Café of Lost Youth
Patrick Modiano
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Description for In the Café of Lost Youth
Paperback. The elegant, haunting story of the forgotten people and places of Paris from the reigning Nobel Laureate. Translator(s): Cameron, Professor Euan. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 13. Weight in Grams: 118.
Four narrators, a student from a cafe, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. The daughter of a single mother who works in the Moulin Rouge, Louki grows up in poverty in Montmartre. Her one attempt to escape her background fails when she is rejected from the Lycee Jules-Ferry. She meanders on through life, into a cocaine habit, and begins frequenting the Cafe Conde, whose regulars call her Louki . She drifts into marriage with a ... Read more
Four narrators, a student from a cafe, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. The daughter of a single mother who works in the Moulin Rouge, Louki grows up in poverty in Montmartre. Her one attempt to escape her background fails when she is rejected from the Lycee Jules-Ferry. She meanders on through life, into a cocaine habit, and begins frequenting the Cafe Conde, whose regulars call her Louki . She drifts into marriage with a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857055286
SKU
V9780857055286
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About Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano was born in Paris, France in 1945. He was the recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He previously won the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for Rue des boutiques obscures, and the 1972 Grand Prix ... Read more
Reviews for In the Café of Lost Youth
As beautiful as a tragic song...
Nouvel Observateur
Some novels, the more precious and necessary, render their readers more vulnerable, disarmed and fragile. And such is the case with this deeply moving portrait of a woman so familiar, and yet so lost, drawn by Modiano at the exact border between shadow and light.
Le Monde
Patrick ... Read more
Nouvel Observateur
Some novels, the more precious and necessary, render their readers more vulnerable, disarmed and fragile. And such is the case with this deeply moving portrait of a woman so familiar, and yet so lost, drawn by Modiano at the exact border between shadow and light.
Le Monde
Patrick ... Read more