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Guy Roland, a Paris private detective who lost his memory ten years ago, takes over his retiring boss's office and uses it to search for the man he used to be.
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So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
Jean Daragane, an ageing writer living alone in Paris, gets a call from a stranger who has found his lost address book, and is drawn back towards a childhood he has forgotten.
Dora Bruder
Modiano comes across a notice in a December 1941 newspaper asking for news of a missing fifteen-year-old Jewish girl in Paris, and spends years trying to trace her.
Ambiguous Adventure
Samba Diallo, a boy of the Diallobé nobility raised in a strict Quranic school, is sent to the French school and then to Paris, and finds himself caught between two worlds.
Before I Go to Sleep
Every morning Christine Lucas wakes up with no memory of the last twenty years, and the man beside her has to explain that he is her husband, until she finds a journal she has been keeping in secret.
The Galton Case
Lew Archer is hired by the lawyer of Maria Galton, a rich and dying old woman, to find her son Anthony, who ran off with a girl more than twenty years ago and was never heard from again.
The Shadow Lines
A boy growing up in Calcutta pieces together the lives of his family across Calcutta, Dhaka and London, and a death in a riot in 1964.
The Housekeeper and the Professor
A young housekeeper goes to work for a former mathematics professor whose memory, since an accident, lasts only eighty minutes; each morning she and her ten-year-old son are strangers to him again, and he greets them with numbers.
Out Stealing Horses
A sixty-seven-year-old widower moves to a remote cabin in eastern Norway and meets a neighbour who pulls him back to the summer of 1948, when he lost his best friend and his father.
A Dark-Adapted Eye
Decades later, Faith Severn is asked by a writer to remember her aunt Vera Hillyard, hanged in 1950 for murder, and the family secrets of their wartime summers.
The Searcher
Cal Hooper, a retired Chicago detective, buys a cottage in a remote Irish village for a quiet life, until a local kid asks him to find out what happened to a missing brother.
Clear Light of Day
Bim, who has stayed in the family's crumbling house in Old Delhi to look after her disabled brother, is visited by her sister Tara, and they remember the summer of Partition.
The Dry
Federal agent Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown in rural Australia for the funeral of his childhood friend, accused of killing his family and himself, and stays to look into the case, reopening a death twenty years old.