The postcard
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
TIME Magazine·NPR·Library Journal·The Globe and Mail·Lilith·Forward Magazine·Toronto Star·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.
Subjects
Anonymous letters -- Fiction
Berest, Anne
Berest, Anne, -- 1979- -- Family -- Fiction
Biographical fiction
Domestic fiction
Exiles
Exiles -- Fiction
Family
Fiction
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
Historical fiction
History
Jewish families
Jewish families -- Fiction
Jews
Jews -- Europe -- Fiction
Jews -- Fiction
Literature
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction
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9781609458393
9781609459963
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Grouping Title | postcard |
Grouping Author | anne berest |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-10-05 10:50:34AM |
Last Indexed | 2024-10-05 10:52:42AM |
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Kover, Tina A.
Kover, Tina A.,translator
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Berest, Anne, -- 1979- -- Family -- Fiction
Biographical fiction
Domestic fiction
Exiles -- Fiction
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Jewish families -- Fiction
Jews -- Europe -- Fiction
Jews -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction
The postcard / Anne Berest ; translated from the French by Tina Kover
Berest, Anne
Exiles
Family
Fiction
Historical Fiction
History
Jewish families
Jews
Literature
World War, 1939-1945
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