The Search Warrant

The Search Warrant
Patrick Modiano
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Paperback
h178 x 110mm - 144pg
3 Sep 2020 UK
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9781784876388
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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
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 *
Patrick Modiano was born in an outlying quarter of Paris in 1945. He published his first novel, La Place de l' toile, when he was 21, and has made a distinguished career as a novelist ever since, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014. He has won the Grand Prix du Roman de l' Academie Fran aise and the Prix Goncourt. His fiction is haunted by the trauma of the German Occupation of France, and this subject also features in the screenplay of Lacombe Lucien which he wrote for the film director Louis Malle. Joanna Kilmartin is the translator and editor of Marcel Proust' s Selected Letters- Volume Four, 1918-1922. She has been awarded the Scott-Moncrieff translation prize twice- in 1971 for Sunlight on Cold Water by Fran oise Sagan, and in 1974 for Bernadini' s Terrace by Suzanne Prou.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781784876388
Published: 3 Sep 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 178mm
Width: 110mm
Spine: 11mm
Weight: 100g
Pages: 144

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