In the Cafe of Lost Youth S.L. EL CROQUIS a panorama of a remarkable

a panorama of a remarkable talent

this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel

but they suspect that they are innocent

there is no doubt about that

a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever

In the Cafe of Lost Youth S.L. EL CROQUIS a panorama of a remarkableNYRB 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