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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
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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’sThe Postcardis 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 Opra Garnier in Paris. On the back, the names of Anne Berest’s maternal great-grandparents, Ephram and Emma, and their children, Nomie 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.
