Young once
By: Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Damion Searls
Contributors: Searls, Damion, translator
Series: New York Review Books classics; New York Review Books classics
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781590179550
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Fiction
Work titles: Jeunesse
Description: "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, 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, at the mercy of the kindness and unkindness of strangers. They move through a Paris saturated with the crimes and secrets of the past but breathing hopes for the future; they find each other and struggle together to create what, looking back, will have been their youth"--
Notes: Translation from the French of: Jeunesse.