{"product_id":"missing-person-1","title":"Missing Person","description":"WINNER OF THE 2014 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Prix Goncourt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this strange, elegant novel, winner of France's premier literary prize, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn one level Missing Person is 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 sparce, hypnotic prose, superbly translated by Daniel Weissbort, draws his readers into the intoxication of a rare literary experience.","brand":"bookshop.lol","offers":[{"title":"Thryft - Used (Like New)","offer_id":42488637489230,"sku":"9781567922813","price":6.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Thryft - Used (Very Good)","offer_id":42488637521998,"sku":"9781567922813","price":3.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Thryft - Used (Good)","offer_id":42488637554766,"sku":"9781567922813","price":3.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Thryft - Used (Well Read)","offer_id":42488637587534,"sku":"9781567922813","price":3.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/3857\/4926\/files\/192378_dc156227-d34d-4eed-ae7b-a418d1637c6b.jpg?v=1747340860","url":"https:\/\/bookshop.lol\/products\/missing-person-1","provider":"bookshop.lol","version":"1.0","type":"link"}