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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