{"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 attach?? 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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verba Mundi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781567928297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.10d","brand":"Patrick Modiano","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45187062005941,"sku":"9781567928297","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9cef1570-a8d3-445e-973a-49058cf51a57.jpg?v=1742271247","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/missing-person-9781567928297","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}