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 peop…
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