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On a Japanese beach, teenage sisters Hanako and Reiko are caught up in a storm. Reiko survives while Hanako is lost to the sea. Their mother, however, can't shake the feeling her missing daughter is still alive, and soon family tragedy takes on a global political dimension.
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Une nuit, traversant un pont, Soren disparaît. Accident, fuite, suicide ? Pour percer le mystère, une centaine de témoins racontent Soren tel qu’ils le connaissaient. Homme multiple, tour à tour producteur, musicien, organisateur de festivals, il n’avait guère cessé, depuis la n des années 1970, d’arpenter avec passion le monde de la musique. Mais que sait-on vraiment de ses proches ? Le portrait kaléidoscopique qui naît de ces multiples évocations nous entraîne dans le vertige de cette question : qui sommes-nous sous le regard d’autrui ? C’est une enquête troublante que ce nouveau roman, un patchwork de témoignages qui tente de saisir l’insaisissable. Un récit impressionniste et foisonnant, tantôt mélancolique ou caustique, tantôt tendre et joyeux.
Missing persons --- Fiction --- Persons --- Missing persons - Fiction
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Every day people go missing. Some run away, some are kidnapped, some are the victims of foul play. This book examines true stories of missing persons and their families alongside the various resources available to them.
Missing persons --- Missing children --- Missing persons --- Investigation
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"Et parmi toutes ces pages blanches et vides, je ne pouvais détacher les yeux de la phrase qui chaque fois me surprenait quand je feuilletais l'agenda : "Si j'avais su... ". On aurait dit une voix qui rompait le silence, quelqu'un qui aurait voulu vous faire une confidence, mais y avait renoncé ou n'en avait pas eu le temps".
Reminiscing --- Missing persons --- Memory
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Travelers --- Missing persons --- Israel
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An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropology In thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil, social, or biological death? Only somebody can become a "nobody," but, as Daniel Heller-Roazen shows, the ways of being a nonperson are as diverse and complex as they are mysterious and unpredictable. Heller-Roazen treats the variously missing persons of the subtitle in three parts: Vanishings, Lessenings, and Survivals. In each section and with multiple transhistorical and transcultural examples, he challenges the categories that define nonpersons in philosophy, ethics, law, and anthropology. Exclusion, infamy, and stigma; mortuary beliefs and customs; children's games and state censuses; ghosts and "dead souls" illustrate the lives of those lacking or denied full personhood. In the archives of fiction, Heller-Roazen uncovers figurations of the missing--from Helen of Argos in Troy or Egypt to Hawthorne's Wakefield, Swift's Captain Gulliver, Kafka's undead hunter Gracchus, and Chamisso's long-lived shadowless Peter Schlemihl. Readers of The Enemy of All and No One's Ways will find a continuation of those books' intense intellectual adventures, with unexpected questions and arguments arising every step of the way. In a unique voice, Heller-Roazen's thought and writing capture the intricacies of the all-too-human absent and absented.
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