{"product_id":"book-bp0u","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 Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49300973388080,"sku":"BDbp0u","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49300973420848,"sku":"ZEbp0u","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD [ZM]","offer_id":49300973453616,"sku":"ZMbp0u","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/162276-bp0u-Square.jpg?v=1733188151","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bp0u","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}