Search Warrant

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREMissing, 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