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Missing Person

by Patrick Modiano, Daniel Weissbort
Missing Person
Missing Person

Identity quest enveloped in noir mystery.

"Missing Person" could be an evocative journey for you if you’re drawn to the allure of a psychological puzzle wrapped in the ambiance of classic noir. Modiano's narrative weaves through the depths of memory and identity, grasping at fragments that might just piece together who Guy Roland used to be. It's the sort of book that might haunt you for days, leaving you pondering your own sense of self.

  • Prix Goncourt (1978)
  • French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Missing Person

by Patrick Modiano, Daniel Weissbort
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ISBN: 9781567922813
Authors: Patrick Modiano, Daniel Weissbort
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
Date of Publication: 2004-11-30
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Mystery/Crime/Thriller, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Crime, Mystery, French Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.63
(rated by 9793 readers)

Description

In this strange, elegant novel, winner of France's premier literary prize, 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 – directories, yearbooks, and papers of all kinds going back half a century – but his leads are few. Could he really be the person in that photograph, a young man remembered by some as a South American attaché? 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 cafés, 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 sparse, hypnotic prose, superbly translated by Daniel Weissbort, draws his readers into the intoxication of a rare literary experience.
 

Identity quest enveloped in noir mystery.

"Missing Person" could be an evocative journey for you if you’re drawn to the allure of a psychological puzzle wrapped in the ambiance of classic noir. Modiano's narrative weaves through the depths of memory and identity, grasping at fragments that might just piece together who Guy Roland used to be. It's the sort of book that might haunt you for days, leaving you pondering your own sense of self.

  • Prix Goncourt (1978)
  • French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.