Missing Person (Verba Mundi Book)

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Missing Person (Verba Mundi Book)

In this strange, elegant novel, winner of France's premier literary prize the Prix Goncourt, Patrick Modiano portrays a man in pursuit of the identity he lost in the murky days of the Paris Occupation, the black hole of French memory.

For ten years Guy Roland has lived without a past. His current life and name were given to him by his recently retired boss, Hutte, who welcomed him, a onetime client, into his detective agency. Guy makes full use of Hutte's files â€“ directories, yearbooks, and papers of all kinds going back half a century â€“ but his leads are few. Could he really be the person in that photograph, a young man remembered by some as a South American attachÃ©? Or was he someone else, perhaps the disappeared scion of a prominent local family? He interviews strangers and is tantalized by half-clues until, at last, he grasps a thread that leads him through the maze of his own repressed experience.

On one level Missing Person is a detective thriller, a 1950s film noir mix of smoky cafÃ©s, illegal passports, and insubstantial figures crossing bridges in the fog. On another level, it is also a haunting meditation on the nature of the self. Modiano's sparce, hypnotic prose, superbly translated by Daniel Weissbort, draws his readers into the intoxication of a rare literary experience.

Country	USA
Author	Patrick Modiano
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	0
EISBN	9781567925432
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	David R. Godine, Publisher
Manufacturer	David R. Godine, Publisher
NumberOfPages	168
PublicationDate	2005-01-01
Publisher	David R. Godine, Publisher
ReleaseDate	2005-01-01
Studio	David R. Godine, Publisher

Missing Person (Verba Mundi Book)

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