[Nobel Prize winner author in Literature] Villa Triste is a novel about the memories of a young man who flees Paris for a French lakeside town in the early 1960s to escape his fears. The anxious young man befriends a doctor and an actress who invite him into their world of debauchery. The summer is full of debauchery and ignorance of reality, but the war feels close. Modiano has written a haunting novel that captures lost youth, the search for identity, and ultimately, the fleetingness of time.
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