In the Cafe of Lost Youth S.L. EL CROQUIS there is no doubt about

there is no doubt about that

The year is 1Q84

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

Lalla Romano

In the Cafe of Lost Youth S.L. EL CROQUIS there is no doubt aboutNYRB 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