Book Review
Missing Persons (1978)
by Patrick Modiano
Originally published in 1978, Missing Persons won the Prix Goncourt(the French Pulitzer) and established himself as a major literary talent inside France (he was five novels in to his career). It is also- surprise surprise- the most accessible of the four books of his I've read. Missing Persons actually takes the detective story by way of European existentialist format common to all of Modiano's novels and takes it somewhere- giving the reader a narrator who is investigating his own identity- having been found without memory as a young man in the aftermath of World War II. Missing Persons is the Modiano to read first!
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