{"product_id":"young-once-paperback","title":"YOUNG ONCE (Paperback)","description":"An NYRB Classics Original\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eWinner 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":"Modiano, Patrick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337150165266,"sku":"9781590179550","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/4329843482754.jpg?v=1780434395","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/young-once-paperback","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}