In the Café of Lost Youth (Paperback)

from ivan.frade

Maybe knowing a bit of Paris would have made this story easier to follow, as it has plenty of references to the geography of the city. The changes of point of view were remarkable and helped to move the story along but it is a thin story, more insinuating than really telling and the overall resul...

from jcbrunner

The writing of Patrick Modiano, Nobel prize in literature 2014, reminds of Alberto Giacometti's emaciated statues, isolated beings lacking in flesh and blood. The protagonists meet and talk but there is neither much happening nor true interaction between the protagonists. This coffee shop of lost...

from Hagelstein

The café is called the Condé, in Paris. The lost youth are a loose group that convene there, none of whom appear to be notable, now or in the future. A figure of intrigue is a girl nick-named Louki. She's as lost as the others, maybe more so. Four narrators, including Louki, tell her story, ultim...

from charlie68

More of a novelette than a novel but not lacking in quality. The story is told from multiple view points and leads nicely to its conclusion.

from debnance

Yes, it's brilliant and true, but it's full of sadness, too. Ennui on every page. Louki is the poor daughter of a single mother and she has lost out on the only real opportunity in her life. She drifts through her life in 1950's Paris, meeting people, but never really knowing them, while they nev...