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The Search Warrant
  • Published: 6 August 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473582200
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144
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The Search Warrant

Dora Bruder

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26 May 2026
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6 Aug 2020
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Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano's masterpiece: a moving memoir, a portrait of war-torn Europe and a hunt for one missing girl.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Missing, a young girl, Dora Bruder, age 15.

One winter night in 1941, a Jewish girl runs away from her Paris boarding school. Stumbling across her disappearance listed in an old newspaper, Patrick Modiano finds himself propelled on a quest to exhume her fate.

His search will go on to last a decade. Little more will be found, just fragments of a lost family history, a sense of the dark streets of occupied Paris, Dora’s name on a list of those sent to Auschwitz. And the spectre of Modiano’s own troubled past, from which he can no longer look away.

‘One of France’s most important novelists’ The New York Times

'[A] spokesman for the disappeared’ Guardian

  • Published: 6 August 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473582200
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144
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Praise for The Search Warrant

Modiano’s crowning as the Nobel Prize-winner for Literature aptly sees its republication. And so it should

Arifa Akbar, Independent

An exceptional book

JORGE SEMPRUN

This book is both harrowing and admirable...quite simply shattering

RENAUD MATIGNON, Figaro

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