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The Postcard

The Postcard

The Postcard
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The Postcard Hardback - 2023

by Anne Berest; Tina Kover (Translator)

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  • Title The Postcard
  • Author Anne Berest; Tina Kover (Translator)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Europa Editions
  • Publication date 2023-05-16
  • Bookseller's Inventory # V-07-3428
  • ISBN 9781609458386 / 1609458389
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.5 in (21.84 x 14.48 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code 843.92
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

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 Opra Garnier in Paris. On the back, the names of Anne Berest's maternal great-grandparents, Ephram and Emma, and their children, Nomie 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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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2023, Page 26
  • Foreword, 04/27/2023, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2023, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2023, Page 65
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/20/2023, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 05/14/2023, Page 0

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