Missing person
by Patrick Modiano, Daniel Weissbort · first published 2004
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"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 unti
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Also great, and in my opinion, quite Simenonesque: Missing Person [1] by Patrick Modiano (the French winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature). [1] https://www.amazon.com/Missing-Person-Verba-Mundi-Book/dp/15...
on “If only Georges Simenon had been a bit more like Maigret” ↗A heads up that Honeymoon, Missing Person, and Catherine Certitude (a children's book) by Modiano are all available from David R. Godine, Publisher, for those looking for English translation. [0] To the best of my knowledge, English translations…
on “The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014” ↗