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In the Cafe of Lost Youth (häftad, eng)
Four narrators, a student from a café, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, cons...
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Four narrators, a student from a café, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki.
The daughter of a single mother who works in the Moulin Rouge, Louki grows up in poverty in MontmartreHer one attempt to escape her background fails when she is rejected from the Lycée Jules-Ferry. She meanders on through life, into a cocaine habit, and begins frequenting the Café Condé, whose regulars call her "Louki". She drifts into marriage with a real estate agency director, but finds no satisfaction with him or his friends and so makes the simple decision not to return to him one evening.
She turns instead to a young man almost as aimless and adrift as she, but who perhaps loves her all the same.
Ever-present through this story is the city of Paris, almost another character in her own right. This is the Paris of ''no-man''s-lands'', of lonely journeys on the last metro, or nocturnal walks along empty boulevards; of cafés where the lost youth wander in, searching for meaning, and the older generation sift through their memories of their own long-gone adolescence.
Translated from the French by Euan Cameron
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 160 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Quercus Publishing |
Utgivningsdatum | 2017-01-12 |
ISBN | 9780857055286 |
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