Missing person / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Daniel Weissbort.
| Author/creator | Modiano, Patrick, 1945- |
| Other author | Weissbort, Daniel. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Boston, Mass. : David R. Godine, 2005. |
| Description | 167 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Rue des boutiques obscures. English |
| Series | A Verba Mundi book Verba Mundi. ^A1007644 |
| Review | "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 one-time 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 leads to his former life are few. Could he really be that person in a photograph, a young man remembered by some as a South American attache? 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.". |
| Summary | "On one level Missing Person is a detective thriller, a 1950s film noir mix of smoky cafes, 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."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| LCCN | 2004019881 |
| ISBN | 1567922813 (softcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781567922813 (softcover : alk. paper) |