Cover of Missing Person

Missing Person

by Patrick Modiano

2004 · adult

Set in 1 place · 1 primary
Sense of Place
5/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)

"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."

Set in

  • Paris · France
    1960s Paris streets
    ★ primary

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