Book - 21, The Search Warrant

The Search Warrant : Dora Bruder (1997)

by

Patrick Modiano

Book Read: 16 July 2015

Note Written: 27 July 2015

'The Search Warrant' is a semi-autobiographical account of the author going in search of the details of 'Dora Bruder', a girl from Paris who lived during the time of the Second World War and Jewish Persecution. The author embarks on this journey by coming across a 'missing' notice he found in an old newspaper. The narration is through combining his own account of the search, notes, official records, letters etc. The author also remembers his own journeys through the ways and locations which Dora Bruder lived and existed. Sometimes, I think of things like that- how many people would have been and trod on the paths which I now walk on- they would all have their own stories, their own secrets, their own histories and such that. Through the various anecdotes, accounts, and official records we get to know the many horrors of the era- thousands, persecuted, gone missing, executed without any particular reason or cause- the horrors of the war are terrible indeed. There should be similar stories in all places of contention, throughout the world, where war has happened or is happening- millions of stories, with very few being told.