Postcard

Title: Postcard
Author: Anne Berest
ISBN: 9798889660354
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2024
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher Description: <p><strong>A BEST BOOK OF 2023<br></strong><em>TIME Magazine</em>・<em>NPR</em>・<em>Library Journal</em>・<em>The Globe and Mail</em>・<em>Lilith</em>・<em>Forward Magazine</em>・<em>Toronto Star</em>・<em>The New Yorker</em><strong><br></strong></p><br><p><strong>"A testament to the power of imagination and an investigation of empathy."--</strong><strong><em>Vogue</em></strong></p><br><p><strong>"Stunning."--Leslie Camhi, </strong><strong><em>The New Yorker</em></strong></p><br><p><strong>"A can't-miss novel."--</strong><strong><em>Chicago Review of Books</em></strong></p><br><p><strong>"Compelling."--</strong><strong><em>The Washington Examiner</em></strong></p><br><p>Anne Berest's <em>The Postcard</em> is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. It is at once a gripping investigation into family trauma, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life.</p><br><p>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.</p><br><p>Years after the postcard is delivered, the heroine of this novel is moved to discover who sent it and why. What emerges is a moving saga of a family devastated by the travails of the twentieth century and partly restored through the power of storytelling.</p><br>