Missing Person (Verba Mundi Book) - Softcover

Modiano, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567922813 ISBN 13: 9781567922813

Verlag: David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2005

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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 " " 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 attach? 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 cafs, 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.

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• Verlag: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1567922813
• ISBN 13: 9781567922813
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192