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  • Published: 5 September 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241402191
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

Missing Person




One of the great novels of Paris, from the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature

The narrator wanders the streets of Paris. He visits bars, flats, restaurants. He picks through fragments of information, old photos, partial conversations. He is trying to piece together events of which he has no memory, of something terrible that happened during the Second World War in which he is in some way implicated. He does not even know his own name.

One of the great modern French novels, Missing Person made Modiano's reputation, winning the Prix Goncourt. A hallucinatory vision of Paris and its secrets, it drifts through the city accumulating clues, scraps, glimpses of blighted lives as the narrator obsessively hunts for his own erased past.

  • Published: 5 September 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241402191
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

About the author

Patrick Modiano

Patrick Modiano is a celebrated French novelist, author of numerous books for adults and children. His work has been translated into over 30 languages. Notable awards include the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française, the Prix Goncourt and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies.'

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