Missing person (Rue Des Boutiques Obscures)
A touching novel that has private investigator Guy Roland at the center of the plot, who tries to find out something about his past after his associate, retires. He is a man who has lived under a false identity for the past ten years due to amnesia or an inability to remember the past. The identity of the main character and the narrator is gradually revealed. In search of his past, he discovers that his tragedy occurred during World War II or during the Nazi occupation of France. Modiano introduces us to the history of Paris and the lives of its inhabitants.
In my opinion, this is a good detective novel that tells the intimate story of an individual with whom we can all identify.
"He had a striking appearance: vitality, porcelain blue slanted eyes, a bright smile and always ready to laugh. Behind all that - animal cunning. "
Patrick Modiano is a French novelist born in 1945. He is the winner of the Grand Prize of the French Academy, the Goncourt Prize for this novel (Rue des boutiques obscures) and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014.
I look forward reading the rest of his literary opus.
See you on Tuesday!
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