The postcard
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
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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.
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Berest, A., & Kover, T. A. (2023). The postcard. New York, Europa Editions.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Berest, Anne, 1979- and Tina A., Kover. 2023. The Postcard. New York, Europa Editions.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Berest, Anne, 1979- and Tina A., Kover, The Postcard. New York, Europa Editions, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)Berest, Anne and Tina A. Kover. The Postcard. New York, Europa Editions, 2023.
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| 500 | |a Originally published in French as "La carte postale" in 2021 by Editions Grasset & Fasquelle. -- title page verso | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Promised lands -- Memories of a Jewish child without a synagogue -- Fire names -- Myriam. | |
| 520 | |a "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." -- |c Publisher marketing. | ||
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