Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The Search Warrant is the story of teenager Dora Bruder, who vanishes from her convent school during the Occupation of Paris, and one man's quest to uncover her fate and come to terms with his own family history. A heart-rending meditation on people, stories and human history lost during the Second World War.
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 Segan, and in 1974 for Bernadini's Terrace
by Suzanne Prou.
Modiano’s crowning as the Nobel Prize-winner for Literature aptly
sees its republication. And so it should
*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*
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