← Back to discovery

Missing person

Patrick Modiano

2004168 pagesabout 3–4 hours
2004
first published
  • 2005Godine Publisher, David R. · ENGISBN 9781567925432
  • 2004Verba Mundi Books · 168 pages · ENGISBN 9781567922813

"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 until, at last, he grasps a thread that leads him through the maze of his own repressed experience."

How do you feel?