Dora Bruder (Edition 1) (Paperback)

from Hagelstein

Modiano's favorite themes are the past, disappearance, searching for answers. They are all here. In Dora Bruder he researches the mystery of a Jewish girl who disappeared in Paris in 1941, a victim of the holocaust. While knowing what likely happened to her, he searches for traces of how it happe...

from PhilipJHunt

Just wonderful. I expected a writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014 and who has been lauded as "a modern Proust" would offer la long, turgid and tiresome book. Au contraire, mes amis!! "The Search Warrant" (in French it carries the name of the main person of interest, namely "Dora ...

from xieouyang

This is a different type of novel. It's not a novel really, but a semi-documentary narrating the biography of the girl whose name is the title of the book- Dora Bruder. In a nutshell, Dora was a young French girl of Jewish parents who disappeared (ran away) in Paris, was captured and a few months...

from jon1lambert

Best book ever in my view. I reluctantly lent it to someone - who did give it back and said it was thought provoking.

from jon1lambert

This is the best book I have ever read.