The Search Warrant - Patrick Modiano Translator: David Constantine

Translator: David Constantine

Pirkko Saisio transports us to the 1950s Finland of her youth

But when he is shown a map

she is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret

demonic creator of the strange 'Report on the Blind'

The Search Warrant - Patrick Modiano Translator: David ConstantineOne winter night in 1941, a Jewish girl runs away from her Paris boarding school. Stumbling across her disappearance listed in an old newspaper, Patrick Modiano finds himself propelled on a quest to exhume her fate. His search will go on to last a decade. Little more will be found, just fragments of a lost family history, a sense of the dark streets of occupied Paris, Doras name on a list of those sent to Auschwitz. And the spectre of Modianos own