Dora Bruder

by Patrick Modiano

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520218787
• ISBN13: 9780520218789
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"