Description
Two decades after the war, in a France eager to move forward, a man becomes haunted by a single detail: the name “Dora Bruder” printed in a newspaper dated December 1941. What begins as a quiet act of searching turns into a detective-like pursuit through Occupied Paris, where missing persons, bureaucratic traces, and half-remembered streets reveal how easily lives can vanish into history. Blending biography, autobiography, and investigation, the book explores identity shaped by absence, the persistence of the past, and the moral weight of forgetting. In Patrick Modiano’s signature style—spare, elusive, and saturated with atmosphere—every lead feels both intimate and incomplete, as if the city itself is refusing to give up its secrets.
Available Editions
paperback
Gallimard
Published Jan 1, 1997
146 pages
ISBN: 9782070748983
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Details
First Published
1997
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano.