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Europa Editions
May 2023
On Sale: May 16, 2023
464 pages
ISBN: 1609458389
EAN: 9781609458386
Kindle: B0BCNQYT64
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Non-Fiction Biography
WINNER OF THE AMERICAN CHOIX GONCOURT PRIZE
WINNER OF THE RENAUDOT PRIZE
WINNER OF THE ELLE MAGAZINE READERS PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE GONCOURT PRIZE
Anne Berest’s luminous, moving, and unforgettable
new novel The Postcard is the most acclaimed and
beloved French book in recent years.
At once a gripping investigation into family secrets, a
poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and an enthralling
portrait of 20th-century Parisian intellectual and artistic
life, The Postcard tells the story of a family
devastated by the Holocaust and yet somehow restored by love
and the power of storytelling. Heartbreaking, funny,
atmospheric, and a sheer joy to read, The
Postcard is certain to find fans among readers of
Irène Némirovsky’s Suite
Française, Kate Atkinson’s Life After
Life, and Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot
See.
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 four names of Anne Berest’s maternal
great-grandparents, Ephraïm and Emma, and their
children, Noémie and Jacques—all of whom died
at Auschwitz in 1942.
Almost twenty years after the postcard is delivered, Anne
is moved to discover who sent it, and why. Aided by her
chain-smoking mother, countless family, friends, and
associates, a private detective, a graphologist, and many
others, she embarks on a journey to uncover the fate of the
Rabinovitch family: their flight from Russia following the
revolution, their journey to Latvia, Palestine, and Paris,
the war and its aftermath. What emerges is a thrilling and
sweeping tale that shatters her certainties about her
family, her country, and herself.
Translated by Tina Kover
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