The Search Warrant

Heart-rending meditation on people, stories and human history lost during the Second World War, from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Patrick Modiano ''Missing a young girl, Dora Bruder, 15, height 1.55m, oval-shaped face, grey-brown eyes, grey sports jacket, maroon pullover, navy blue skirt and hat, brown gym shoes. All information to M. and Mme Bruder, 41 Boulevard Ornano, Paris.'' Patrick Modiano stumbles across this notice in a December 1941 issue of Paris Soir. The girl has vanished from the convent school which had taken her in during the Occupation, at a time of especially violent German reprisals. Moved by her fate, the author sets out to find all he can about her. He discovers her name in a list of Jews deported to Auschwitz in September 1942 and what further fragments he is able to uncover about the Bruder family become a meditation on the immense losses of the period - people lost, stories lost, human history lost. 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. ''Absolutely magnificent'' Le Monde

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Modiano
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.12.2009
• EAN: 9781846553615
• ISBN: 978-1-84655-361-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; France, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, True war & combat stories, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Holocaust, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, The Holocaust, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Paris (City), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), True war and combat stories, Relating to Jewish people and groups