Missing Person
$64.38
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
5 June 2025
Summary
An amnesic searches for his identity, from Polynesia to Rome, in this novel by master storyteller Patrick Modiano: winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Guy Roland is in pursuit of the identity he lost in the murky days of the Paris Occupation. For ten years, he 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–d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781567928297 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1567928293 |
| Author: | Patrick Modiano, Daniel Weissbort |
| Publisher: | Verba Mundi |
| Imprint: | Verba Mundi |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 5 June 2025 |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 141mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Verba Mundi Book |
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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
About The Author
Patrick Modiano
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.
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