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Synopsis
Missing Person (French: Rue des Boutiques Obscures) is the sixth novel by French writer Patrick Modiano, published on 5 September 1978. In the same year it was awarded the Prix Goncourt. The English translation by Daniel Weissbort was published in 1980. Rue des Boutiques Obscures (lit. 'The Street Of Dark Shops') is the name of a street in Rome (La Via delle Botteghe Oscure) where one of the characters lived, and where Modiano himself lived for some time. On 9 October 2014, Patrick Modiano was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Details
- Type
- Book
- Release date
- January 1, 1978
- Genres
- detective fiction
- Created by
- Patrick Modiano
- Countries
- France