Patrick Modiano.
“I think of Dora Bruder.
I remind myself that, for her, running away was not as easy as it was
for me, twenty years later, in a world that had once again been rendered
harmless. To her, everything in that city of December 1941, its curfews, its
soldiers, its police, was hostile, intent on her destruction. At nearly sixteen
years old, without knowing why, she had the entire world against her.”
In The Search Warrant, Patrick Modiano, takes the readers with
him as he sets out to find out all he can about Dora Bruder, 15, (Height 1.55m,
oval-shaped face, grey-brown eyes, grey sports jacket, maroon pullover, navy
blue skirt and hat, brown gym shoes. All information to M. and Mme Bruder, 41
Boulevard Ornano, Paris, says the notice which the author chances upon in a
December 1941 issue of Paris Soir). who
goes missing from the convent school which had taken her in during the
Occupation.
Modiano: Nazi occupation era memories recalled in slim
volumes. Beneath the calm surface, layers
of immense sadness.
For me, it took, a little patience to read Modiano.
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