The Search Warrant - Patrick Modiano This childless couple promptly erase

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The Search Warrant - Patrick Modiano This childless couple promptly eraseOne winter night in 1941, a Jewish girl runs away from her Paris boarding school. Stumbling across her disappearance listed in an old newspaper, Patrick Modiano finds himself propelled on a quest to exhume her fate. His search will go on to last a decade. Little more will be found, just fragments of a lost family history, a sense of the dark streets of occupied Paris, Doras name on a list of those sent to Auschwitz. And the spectre of Modianos own