The Search Warrant
Dora Bruder
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:3rd Sep '20
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 2014
Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder – a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in an old December 1941 issue of Paris Soir – Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano sets out to find all he can about her.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 2014
Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder – a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in an old December 1941 issue of Paris Soir – Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano sets out to find all he can about her. From her name on a list of deportees to Auschwitz to the fragments he is able to uncover about the Bruder family, Modiano delivers a moving survey of a decade-long investigation that revived for him the sights, sounds and sorrowful rhythms of occupied Paris. And in seeking to exhume Dora Bruder's fate, he in turn faces his own family history.
Translated by Joanna Kilmartin
‘Absolutely magnificent’ Le Monde
Modiano’s crowning as the Nobel Prize-winner for Literature aptly sees its republication. And so it should -- Arifa Akbar * Independent *
The most poignant, the strongest of all Patrick Modiano’s works. From a small ad found in a Paris newspaper in 1941, the writer embarks on the hunt for a young Jewish girl Dora Bruder, a runaway who has disappeared into the dark night of the Occupation. Through this investigation, Modiano looks for Dora, but for his own father as well, also hiding in the Paris of that time. Absolutely magnificent. * Le Monde *
An exceptional book * JORGE SEMPRUN *
This book is both harrowing and admirable...quite simply shattering * RENAUD MATIGNON, Figaro *
ISBN: 9781784876388
Dimensions: 179mm x 111mm x 11mm
Weight: 101g
144 pages