{"product_id":"2940169783032","title":"Missing Person","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this strange, elegant novel, Patrick Modiano portrays a man in pursuit of the identity he lost in the murky days of the Paris Occupation, the black hole of French memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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 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 a maze of his own repressed experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn one level \u003ci\u003eMissing Person \u003c\/i\u003eis a detective thriller, a 1950s, film noir mix of smoky cafés, illegal passports, and insubstantial figures crossing bridges in the fog. On another level it is also a haunting meditation on the nature of the self. Modiano¿s spare, hypnotic prose, superbly translated by Daniel Weissbort, draws listeners into the intoxication of a rare literary experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104662995184,"sku":"2940169783032","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169783032_p0.jpg?v=1769900192","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169783032","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}