The postcard : a novel
Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a photo of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. On the back, the names of Anne Berest's maternal great-grandparents, Ephraïm and Emma, and their children, Noémie and Jacques--all killed at Auschwitz. Fifteen years after the postcard is delivered, Anne, the heroine of this novel, is moved to discover who sent it and why. Aided by her chain-smoking mother, family members, friends, associates, a private detective, a graphologist, and many others, she embarks on a journey to discover the fate of the Rabinovitch family: their flight from Russia following the revolution, their journey to Latvia, Palestine, and Paris. What emerges is a moving saga of a family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling that shatters long-held certainties about Anne's family, her country, and herself." -- Publisher marketing.
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Subject |
Berest, Anne, 1979- > Family > Fiction. Anonymous letters > Fiction. Jews > Europe > Fiction. Jewish families > Fiction. Exiles > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > France > Fiction. France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945 > Fiction. |
Genre |
Biographical fiction. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781609458386
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Physical Description
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475 pages ; 24 cm - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2023.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translation of "La Carte Postale'" by Anne Berest. |
Language Note: | Translated from French to English. |
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Summary
The Postcard
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR TIME Magazineã»NPRã»Library Journalã»The Globe and Mailã»Lilith ã» Forward Magazine ã» Toronto Star ã» The New Yorker Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest's The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a photo of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. On the back, the names of Anne Berest's maternal great-grandparents, Ephraïm and Emma, and their children, Noémie and Jacques--all killed at Auschwitz. Fifteen years after the postcard is delivered, Anne, the heroine of this novel, is moved to discover who sent it and why. Aided by her chain-smoking mother, family members, friends, associates, a private detective, a graphologist, and many others, she embarks on a journey to discover the fate of the Rabinovitch family: their flight from Russia following the revolution, their journey to Latvia, Palestine, and Paris. What emerges is a moving saga that shatters long-held certainties about Anne's family, her country, and herself.