{"product_id":"9781590179567","title":"Young Once","description":"AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eYoung Once\u003c\/i\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” (\u003ci\u003eDer Spiegel\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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, 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.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161485918448,"sku":"9781590179567","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590179567_p0.jpg?v=1763809778","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590179567","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}