The Search Warrant

Name: The Search Warrant
Author: Patrick Modiano

by Patrick Modiano

Novel of obsession tracing clues to reconstructed past identity

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Patrick Modiano

French Nobel laureate whose haunting fiction obsessively circles the mysteries of identity, memory, and the Nazi Occupation of France. His spare, melancholic prose creates an atmosphere of perpetual half-remembrance.

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