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Young Once (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590179550)
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xAn 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, and Louis's thirty-fifth birthday is a few weeks away. Then the story shifts back to their early years: Louis, just freed from his military service and at loose ends, is taken up by a shady character who brings him to Paris to do some work for a friend who manages a garage; Odile, an aspiring singer, is at the mercy of the kindness and unkindness of strangers. In a Paris that is steeped in crime and full of secrets, they find each other and struggle together to create what, looking back, will have been their youth.
Author: Patrick Modiano
ISBN-10: 1590179552
ISBN-13: 9781590179550
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2016
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2016 pg. 92
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2016
Shelf Awareness 03/18/2016
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, and Louis's thirty-fifth birthday is a few weeks away. Then the story shifts back to their early years: Louis, just freed from his military service and at loose ends, is taken up by a shady character who brings him to Paris to do some work for a friend who manages a garage; Odile, an aspiring singer, is at the mercy of the kindness and unkindness of strangers. In a Paris that is steeped in crime and full of secrets, they find each other and struggle together to create what, looking back, will have been their youth.
Author: Patrick Modiano
ISBN-10: 1590179552
ISBN-13: 9781590179550
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2016
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2016 pg. 92
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2016
Shelf Awareness 03/18/2016
By Patrick Modiano
xPatrick Modiano was born in the Boulogne-Billancourt suburb of Paris near the end of the Nazi occupation of France. He studied at the Lyc馥 Henri-IV and the Sorbonne. As a teenager he took geometry lessons with the writer Raymond Queneau, who would play a key role in his development. He has written more than thirty works of fiction, including novels, children's books, and the screenplay for Louis Malle's film Lacombe, Lucien. In 2014, Modiano won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Damion Searls is a translator from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch and a writer in English. His own books include What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going, The Inkblots, and The Philosophy of Translation. He received the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2019 for Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries.
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