The Postcard
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Translation of: La carte postale.
Promised lands -- Memories of a Jewish child without a synagogue -- Fire names -- Myriam.
"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. 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." -- Publisher marketing.
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Intelligent and Moving submitted by grimest on August 2, 2023, 6:18pm Excellent novel of a woman researching the mysteries surrounding her family history
PUBLISHED
New York : Europa Editions, 2023.
Year Published: 2023
Description: 475 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781609458386
1609458389
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Kover, Tina A.,
SUBJECTS
Berest, Anne, -- 1979- -- Family -- Fiction.
Anonymous letters -- Fiction.
Jews -- Europe -- Fiction.
Jewish families -- Fiction.
Jews -- Fiction.
Exiles -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.