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Dora Bruder

By Patrick Modiano, Joanna Kilmartin (Translator)
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By Patrick Modiano, Joanna Kilmartin (Translator)
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2014 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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 hidin...

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FictionLiteraturePeoples & Cultures - FictionWorld FictionJewish Fiction & LiteratureHistorical FictionJewish Fiction - Children of the HolocaustWorld War II - Historical FictionHistorical Fiction - Biographical