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The Postcard

by Anne Berest

A family history opened by an anonymous postcard

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize

    Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize.

  • Editorial selection

    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year

    Named a best book of the year by The New Yorker.

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A family history opened by an anonymous postcard

In January 2003, an anonymous postcard arrives at the Berest family home, opening an investigation into family secrets and a history marked by the Holocaust. Anne Berest’s novel connects that private inquiry with twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, while tracing how storytelling can recover parts of a family history devastated by persecution. The postcard serves as the starting point for a narrative concerned with memory, inheritance and the effort to make sense of what has been lost.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in family histories shaped by the Holocaust.
  • Readers drawn to stories about memory, secrets and the recovery of the past.
  • Readers interested in twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life.

Themes

Family history and secretsThe Holocaust and its aftermathMemory and storytellingTwentieth-century Parisian cultural life

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Book overview

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
TIME Magazine・NPR・Library Journal・The Globe and Mail・Lilith・Forward Magazine・Toronto Star・The New Yorker


Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest's The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling.


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 Op

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