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The Postcard
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The Postcard
A moving novel based on the true story of a family's endurance and pain, and a heartfelt exploration of Jewish identity in a secular society
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A moving novel from the bestselling author of How to be Parisian Wherever You Are.
January 2003. The Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opera Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives who were killed in Auschwitz: Ephraim, Emma, Noemie and Jacques.
Years later, Anne sought to find the truth behind this postcard. She journeys 100 years into the past, tracing the lives of her ancestors from 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.
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.
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The Postcard by Anne Berest is heralded as an intimate and profound historical novel, blending elements of family history and detective story. Critics describe it as undeniably compelling and reflective, engaging with themes of survivor's pain and Jewish identity while exploring the mysteries of love. Readers appreciate its depth and the questions it raises about truth and history.
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ISBN: 9781787704831
Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 05 October 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Contributors:
- Translated by Tina Kover
- Translated by Tina Kover
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 155.0mm
Height: 255.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 480
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About the Author
The great granddaughter of Spanish-born artist Francis Picabia and French Resistance fighter Gabriële Buffet-Picabia (Marcel Duchamp’s lover and muse), Anne Berest is an actor and author. She has been profiled in Vogue (France), Haaretz newspaper, and has also been a Chanel ambassador. With her sister Claire Berest, Berest wrote a biography of her great grandmother entitled Gabriële. She is also the author of a novel based on Françoise Sagan and the best-selling work of nonfiction How to be Parisian Wherever You Are (Doubleday, 2014), which was translated into thirty-five languages. Her novel The Postcard has won numerous awards, was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize, and was a best-seller in France. Tina Kover is a literary translator whose works include The Black City by Georges Sand, Adelaïde Bon’s The Little Girl on the Ice Floe. For Europa she recently translated Belle Greene by Alexandra Lapierre, and No Touching by Ketty Rouf.
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