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A moving novel from the bestselling author of HOW TO BE PARISIAN WHEREVER YOU ARE “A work of rare grace and importance.”?THE GUARDIAN In January 2003, the Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opéra Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives who were killed in Auschwitz: Ephraïm, Emma, Noémie 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. What emerges is a thrilling and sweeping tale based on true events that shatters her certainties about her family, her country, and herself. 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.
About the author
The great granddaughter of Spanish-born artist Francis Picabia and French Resistance fighter Gabriële Buffet-Picabia (Marcel Duchamp's lover and muse),
Anne Berest is an actor and author. She has been profiled in
Vogue (France),
Haaretz newspaper, and has also been a Chanel ambassador. With her sister Claire Berest, Berest wrote a biography of her great grandmother entitled
Gabriële. She is also the author of a novel based on Françoise Sagan and the best-selling work of nonfiction
How to be Parisian Wherever You Are (Doubleday, 2014), which was translated into thirty-five languages. Her novel
The Postcard has won numerous awards, was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize, and was a best-seller in France.
