Investigation in the heart of the drama of Jewish deportation

An old newspaper late 1941. A short paragraph indicating the disappearance in Paris of a certain Dora Bruder. This is the starting point of the investigation by Modiano in this story - test more than romance - very strange. Been read, the book is quite exciting from three points of view:
1) Starting from a simple information in a newspaper, the author gradually reconstructed the personality of the young Dora. The ability of the author to be passionate for this literally unknown leads to an extremely thorough investigation, worthy of the sleuths. Page after page, it revives the young Dora;
2) In retracing the route of the young Jewess, Modiano restores one of the darkest episodes of the Second World War: the arrest and deportation of Jews, here in Paris. Dora, her parents, her friends, other characters who gradually appear in the book are the victims - anonymous which the author rightly, for his work recalls the names - an incredible drama;
3) Gradually also the story of the young Dora is intertwined with that of the author himself: he notes the places they both traveled to several years apart; it combines the life passages and episodes of Dora lived by his own father (including arrests); nay, we imagine soon communing one and the other - the writer and the young Jewish runaway - in one wandering in the same search for identity.
A book of great interpretative richness and great strength that I highly recommend.