{"product_id":"missing-person-9781567928297","title":"Missing Person","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn amnesic searches for his identity, from Polynesia to Rome, in this novel by master storyteller Patrick Modiano: winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGuy 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--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 attaché? 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished in France as \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRue des Boutiques obscures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e this is both a detective mystery and a haunting meditation on the nature of the self, Patrick Modiano's spare, hypnotic prose, superbly translated by Daniel Weissbort, draws readers into the intoxication of a rare literary experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eModiano, Patrick:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Modiano\u003c\/b\u003e was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature for a body of work that includes \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMissing Person\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHoneymoon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (both published by Godine).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeissbort, Daniel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Weissbort\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verba Mundi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51259992506642,"sku":"9781567928297","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b9c2da05-9f92-491c-9cdb-c3c1981009f0.jpg?v=1749574606","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/missing-person-9781567928297","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}