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 cant-miss novel.Chicago Review of Books

Compelling.The Washington Examiner

Anne Berests 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 Opra Garnier in Paris. On the back, the names of Anne Berests maternal great-grandparents, Ephram and Emma, and their children, Nomie and Jacquesall 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.