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Missing Person
An intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
One man hunts for his lost identity in this combination of psychological suspense and literary elegance. Missing Person crafts an unforgettable journey into the heart of memory, loss, and the fictions we live.
Guy Roland has lived for a decade without a past. His current self was crafted by his employer, Hutte, who originally met Guy as a client before welcoming him into his detective agency. Set against the backdrop of 1950s Paris, Modiano pulls the reader into a world where identity is always just out of reach.
Book Details
- Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
- Publish Date: Mar 11st, 2005
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 0.40in - 0.45lb
- EAN: 9781567922813
- Categories: • Visionary & Metaphysical• Literary• Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators
About the Author
Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature for a body of work that includes Missing Person and Honeymoon (both published by Godine).
Daniel Weissbort was born in London and educated at Cambridge, where he was a History Exhibitioner. In addition to his translations, Weissbort published many collections of his own poetry, co-edited a historical reader in translation theory, and wrote a book about the translator Ted Hughes.
Praise for this book
Praise for Missing Person
Winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's premier literary prize
"Delicate and cunning. . . Modiano's method is to sidle up to subjects of mystery and horror, indicating them without broaching them, as if gingerly fingering the outside of a poison bottle. . . he opens dark doors into the past out of a sunlit present."--Times Literary Supplement
"Missing Person has the pace and economy of a good crime novel, but it also has an allegorical heft, suggesting that modern France's own identity lies somewhere in the fog of Occupation."--New York Review of Books