Missing person
/ Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Daniel Weissbort.
- Boston, Mass. : David R. Godine , 2005.
- 167 p. ; 21 cm.
- A Verba Mundi book .
In this strange, elegant novel, 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. On one level a detective thriller, Missing Person is also a haunting meditation on the nature of the self.