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The postcard

Berest, Anne, 1979-2024
Books, Manuscripts
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. 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.
Main title:
The postcard / Anne Berest ; translated from the French by Tina Kover.
Imprint:
London : Europa Editions, 2024.London : Europa Editions, 2024.
Collation:
475 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.This translation originally published: 2023.
ISBN:
9781787705173 (pbk)
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
2958289
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