The postcard / Anne Berest ; translated from the French by Tina Kover.
Language: English Original language: French Language: English Original language: French Publication details: London : Europa Editions (UK) Ltd, 2023.Description: 475 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781787705203
- Berest, Anne, 1979- -- Family -- Fiction
- Anonymous letters -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Jews -- Europe -- Fiction
- Exiles -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction
- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
- 843.92 23/eng/20231102
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | BER | Issued | 19/04/2024 | 073034 |
Originally published in French as "La carte postale". Grasset & Fasquelle, 2021.
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.
Translated from the French.
