In the Cafe of Lost Youth Stephanie Kate Strohm No flame reduces the risk

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―Esmé Weijun Wang

In the Cafe of Lost Youth Stephanie Kate Strohm No flame reduces the riskNYRB 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