The Search Warrant
  • Published: 3 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781784876388
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $24.99
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The Search Warrant

Dora Bruder

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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. 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
  • Published: 3 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781784876388
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

Patrick Modiano

Patrick Modiano is a celebrated French novelist, author of numerous books for adults and children. His work has been translated into over 30 languages. Notable awards include the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française, the Prix Goncourt and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies.'

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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
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