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One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

''Modiano is a pure original'' Adam Thirlwell

''I am nothing. Nothing but a pale shape, silhouetted that evening against the café terrace, waiting for the rain to stop''

Guy Roland, a private detective in Paris, is trying to solve the mystery of his own past. His memories erased by amnesia, he has no idea where he is from, or even his real name. As he searches for clues through the city''s shadowy streets and smoky bars, latching on to strangers, accumulating mementoes, photographs, scraps and stories, he starts to piece together the events that brought him here, all leading back to the murky days of wartime occupation.



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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. -- John Sturrock * Times Literary Supplement *
Modiano is a pure original -- Adam Thirlwell

Missing Person

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 5 September 2019
      ISBN-13 9780241402184
      978-0241402184
      ISBN-10 0241402182

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

      ''Modiano is a pure original'' Adam Thirlwell

      ''I am nothing. Nothing but a pale shape, silhouetted that evening against the café terrace, waiting for the rain to stop''

      Guy Roland, a private detective in Paris, is trying to solve the mystery of his own past. His memories erased by amnesia, he has no idea where he is from, or even his real name. As he searches for clues through the city''s shadowy streets and smoky bars, latching on to strangers, accumulating mementoes, photographs, scraps and stories, he starts to piece together the events that brought him here, all leading back to the murky days of wartime occupation.



      Trade Review
      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. -- John Sturrock * Times Literary Supplement *
      Modiano is a pure original -- Adam Thirlwell

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