The Search Warrant - Patrick Modiano Pirkko Saisio transports us to

Pirkko Saisio transports us to the 1950s Finland of her youth

French-from-France ex-pats

demonic creator of the strange 'Report on the Blind'

irritated by life

Tomoko finds her relatives equally exotic and beguiling and her growing friendship with her cousin Mina draws her into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling

The Search Warrant - Patrick Modiano Pirkko Saisio transports us toOne 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