{"product_id":"young-once-rare-books","title":"Young Once (RARE BOOKS)","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn NYRB Classics Original\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYoung Once\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDer Spiegel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOdile 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, 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\/span\u003e","brand":"Best of Used books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":44270413021441,"sku":"2UN5Q71FL-Used","price":799.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/4299\/0495\/files\/515nAVBhMNL._SX308_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1694428890","url":"https:\/\/bestofusedbooks.com\/products\/young-once-rare-books","provider":"Best Of Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}