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Dora Bruder

  • Patrick Modiano

3.00

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"Patrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal columns of the New Year's Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir. Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl, Dora Bruder, who had run away from her Catholic boarding school, the ad sets Modiano off on a quest to find out everything he can about Dora and why, at the height of German reprisals, she ran away on a bitterly cold day from the people hiding her.

He finds only one other official mention of her name on a list of Jews deported from Paris to Auschwitz in September 1942."--BOOK JACKET.

"With no knowledge of Dora Bruder aside from these two records, Modiano continues to dig for fragments from Dora's past. What little he discovers in official records and through remaining family members, becomes a meditation on the immense losses of the period - lost people, lost stories, and lost history.

Modiano delivers a moving account of the ten-year investigation that took him back to the sights and sounds of Paris under the Nazi Occupation and the paranoia of the Petain regime as he tries to find connections to Dora."--BOOK JACKET.

Genres

  • Biography
  • History
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Jewish girls
  • Jews
  • Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives
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About the author

  • Patrick Modiano

    born 1945

    3.16

    32 ratings · 270 works

Editions

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    Gallimard

    1997

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    Gallimard

    1999

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    Seix Barral

    2009

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    University of California Press

    1999