Excerpt: h/t Books IQ...
Reviewed by Ted Gioia
The missing person in the title of Patrick Modiano's novel, winner of the Goncourt Prize for 1978, is
the detective himself. Guy Roland suffers from amnesia, the period of his life before launching his
career as a private investigator is almost a complete blank. Even his name and nationality are a mystery to him. Now after a career of solving other people's problems, he turns to his own.
The moment of crisis for Roland, when his past fell away, was—perhaps not surprisingly—during the period of Nazi occupation of France...Read more...
The missing person in the title of Patrick Modiano's novel, winner of the Goncourt Prize for 1978, is
the detective himself. Guy Roland suffers from amnesia, the period of his life before launching his
career as a private investigator is almost a complete blank. Even his name and nationality are a mystery to him. Now after a career of solving other people's problems, he turns to his own.
The moment of crisis for Roland, when his past fell away, was—perhaps not surprisingly—during the period of Nazi occupation of France...Read more...
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