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Postcard

Postcard
$18.95

A BEST BOOK OF 2023
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"A testament to the power of imagination and an investigation of empathy."--Vogue


"Stunning."--Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker


"A can't-miss novel."--Chicago Review of Books


"Compelling."--The Washington Examiner


Anne Berest's The Postcard 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.


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.


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.


ISBN: 
9798889660354
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Paperback
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Publication Date: 
May 7, 2024
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