The release date for the English version of 'The Postcard' by
Anne Berest is May 2023. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The Postcard by Anne Berest, winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, is a moving account of a Jewish family that was devastated by the Holocaust and was partially restored through the power of storytelling. It is also a vivid portrait of 20th-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life and an intriguing look into family secrets.
2003 January. The Berest family receives an anonymous postcard sent to their house along with their regular Christmas greetings. A picture of Paris's Opéra Garnier appears on the front. The names of Ephraïm and Emma, the maternal great-grandparents of Anne Berest, and their children, Jacques and Noémie, who were all murdered at Auschwitz, are written on the reverse.
Anne, the main character in this book, is intrigued to find out who sent the postcard and why fifteen years after it is sent. With the help of her chain-smoking mother, her relatives, friends, colleagues, a graphologist, a private investigator, and several others, she sets out on a quest to learn the story of the Rabinovitch family's exodus from Russia after the revolution and their travels to Latvia, Palestine, and Paris. A powerful story that challenges preconceived notions about Anne's family, her nation, and herself eventually comes to light.