{"product_id":"young-once","title":"Young Once","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn NYRB Classics Original\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung Once 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\" (Der Spiegel).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e","brand":"Patrick Modiano, Damion Searls","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45302096625833,"sku":"9781590179550","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781590179550.jpg?v=1739664526","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/young-once","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}