Showing results for "Patrick Modiano" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Winner of France's premier literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, Mein Gumshuda, by Patrick Modiano, traces the journey of a man in pursuit of his lost identity. Guy Roland has lived a life without a past for 10 years. As Guy begins to reveal the layers of his past, he realizes that there is so much more to his life than one could imagine. Mein Gumshuda is a detective thriller, a rare literary experience.

Modiano, winner of the Prix Goncourt, constructs "a haunting tale of quiet intensity" (Review of Contemporary Fiction). It parallels the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and career to hole up in a Paris hotel, with that of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he'd met 20 years before, and whose mystery continues to haunt him.

A translation in Hindi of Nobel Prize (2014) winning French author Patrick Modiano’s suspense novel So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Sanjay Kumar, this book tells the story of Jean Daragane, an elderly, reclusive writer who is disturbed one summer afternoon by a sudden phone call. The man on the other side, Gilles Ottolini, claims to have found an address book that Daragane had lost during a train journey. On the pretext of returning it, Ottolini arranges a meeting with Daragane in a Paris café, where he asks him about one of the people listed: Guy Torstel.

31 dicembre 1941. Sul "Paris-Soir" appare un annuncio: si cercano notizie di una ragazza di quindici anni, il suo nome è Dora Bruder. A denunciarne la scomparsa sono i genitori, ebrei emigrati da tempo in Francia. Quasi cinquant'anni dopo Patrick Modiano si imbatte in quelle poche righe di giornale, in quella richiesta d'aiuto rimasta sospesa. Non sa niente di Dora, ma ne è ugualmente attratto: cerca di ricostruirne la vita, i motivi che l'hanno fatta scappare, cerca di immaginare le sue giornate nel periodo della fuga.

Un detective busca a una mujer desaparecida. Un hombre busca el rastro de un fantasma. Modiano deslumbra con su nueva exploración de la memoria. Un aprendiz de detective llamado Jean Eyben recibe el encargo de la agencia Hutte, para la que trabaja, de seguir el rastro de una mujer. La mujer se llama Noëlle Lefebvre, y el joven investigador la persigue infructuosamente. Treinta años después, retoma por su cuenta ese caso y continúa las pesquisas.