Missing Person

Patrick Modiano

1978

Vichy. An American car stops by the Parc des Sources, opposite the Hôtel de la Paix. Its bodywork is spattered with mud. Two men and a woman get out and walk toward the hotel entrance. The two men are unshaven and one of the two, the taller, holds the woman by the arm. In front of the hotel, a row of wicker armchairs in which people sleep, their…

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Creator Bio

Patrick Modiano

b. 1945
Patrick Modiano is a French author and screenwriter, whose works were influenced by the early death of his brother and by the German occupation. Fascinated by the psychology that led to resistance in some and collaboration in others, Modiano has written more than twenty novels, many of which have been translated and adapted for film. He received the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie français, the Prix Goncourt, and, in 2014, the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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