Patrick Modiano

In the Café of Lost Youth

Translated from the French by
Euan Cameron

First published in the French language as Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue by
Editions Gallimard, Paris, in 2007
First published in Great Britain in 2016 by

MacLehose Press
An imprint of Quercus Publishing Ltd
Carmelite House
50 Victoria Embankment
London EC4Y 0DZ

Copyright © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2007
English translation copyright © 2016 by Euan Cameron
Copy-edited by Dominique Buchan

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Also by Patrick Modiano in English translation

The Night Watch (1972)

Ring Roads (1974)

Lacombe Lucien: The Complete Scenario of the Film (1975)

Villa Triste (1977)

Missing Person (1980)

A Trace of Malice (1988)

Honeymoon (1992)

Out of the Dark (1998)

Dora Bruder (1999)

Catherine Certitude (2000)

Suspended Sentences (2014)

La place de l’etoile (2015)

Pedigree (2015)

So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood (2015)

The Occupation Trilogy (2015)

Paris Nocturne (2015)

Little Jewel (2015)

The Black Notebook (2016)

Young Once (2016)

Halfway along the path of real life,

we were encircled by a dark melancholy,

expressed by so many sad and mocking words,

in the café of lost youth.

GUY DEBORD