{"product_id":"young-once-new-york-review-books-classics-1590179552","title":"Young Once (New York Review Books Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1590179552\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Modiano, Patrick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn NYRB Classics OriginalWinner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureYoung 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 Odiles thirty-fifth birthday, and Louiss 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51321790431520,"sku":"NEW1590179552","price":17.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/616UkwcaBdL.jpg?v=1773102335","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/young-once-new-york-review-books-classics-1590179552","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}