{"product_id":"missing-person-verba-mundi-book","title":"Missing Person (Verba Mundi Book)","description":"\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 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 the maze of his own repressed experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in France as Rue des Boutiques obscures 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Federal Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44285746741313,"sku":"9781567928297","price":18.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/5400\/0961\/files\/9781567928297.jpg?v=1785642675","url":"https:\/\/aralantle.store\/products\/missing-person-verba-mundi-book","provider":"Aralantle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}