MY
SYNOPSIS
Imagine
This: You are missing.
Your husband is in search of you. A detective is in search of you. A narrator
with whom you have an unknown relationship is in search of you.
When everyone is asking around for you, getting on
clues to piece your disappearance together and find you, only you know where
you are. And you might not even know you are missing.
MY
REVIEW
I’m in love with Patrick Modiano. I had this
perception that to win a Nobel Prize in Literature you have to be a Wole
Soyinka (whose writing I dislike so much despite being African. I know, hang
me!). Anyway, Modiano writes with skill, every word, every sentence needs to be
decoded so the reader can piece the mystery pervading in the novel. A star.—★
About the mystery. You’d find yourself wondering where
Jacqueline DeLanque (“Louki”) is. Throughout the novel, you’d be wondering why
the fuss with her. (Because the narrators sure do make a fuss about her).
There’s one thing though you’d love about Jacqueline, you wouldn’t be able to
figure her out, she’s complex, complicated, and perhaps demented from past,
childhood demons. A star to the mystery, and another to the main character.—★★★
One of the nicest things about this novel is I
couldn’t put a genre to it. At one point I thought it was solely a mystery
novel, then I thought it was intrigue—when missing woman is given her point of
view—then I pegged it down as just literary fiction because I couldn’t pinpoint
the direction of the story but the missing woman didn’t seem missing at all, and
when I gave up trying to put a genre to it enjoying its beautiful writing (novels
are like sexuality! It’s not all black-and-white!), I found out it was a
Literary (Psychological) Thriller in the end.—★★★★
Get this along with all the Patrick Modiano collection
from Quercus. This year, they are really bringing him in this season with about
four titles you could enjoy from this literary sensation.
I recommend this book to anyone who loves their novels
mysterious so much you can’t even tell what the words on the page are saying
till you come to realization that—OMG—you should have paid more attention to
the clues the writer was trying to drop.
