Dora Bruder
If you liked the novel Missing person (Rue Des Boutiques Obscures), you’ll probably love this one. The search for the missing person is the core of this novel as well. The narrator learns from a newspaper ad that Dora Bruder, a poor young girl residing in a boarding school with nuns, disappeared in late 1941. She is a Jew from France, a very ordinary girl and a teenager eager for life. The narrator follows her footsteps and revives Paris during the war years. While the author follows the clues, he narrates not only about Dora but also about himself, about his hopes and fears, with which he crawls under the skin of each individual reader.
What happened to Dora, her family, and others during World War II? The novel talks about the restrictions imposed on Jews, their treatment of them, terror, consequences and apathy.
We call Paris the city of light or, in the optimistic version, the city of love. This novel describes Paris during the difficult war years, when it was a city of darkness, doubt, hiding and betrayal.
It seemed I have to do it on Sundays, when the city relaxed, when the low tide came.
Patrick Modiano is a French novelist born in 1945. He is the winner of the Grand Prize of the French Academy, the Goncourt Prize for this novel (Rue des boutiques obscures) and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014.
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