02457nam a2200337 i 4500003000500000005001700005008004200022020003900064040002500103041001300128082001500141100003500156240003200191245007600223246004000299264003900339264001100378300002400389336002100413337002500434338002300459505010200482520130400584546003201888600004501920650003001965650004401995655002502039655002102064700003402085PPAK20251019162027.0251019t20242024enk er 000 f eng d  a9781787705173cRM 75.95qpaperback aPPAKbengcPPAKerda1 aenghfre04223a843.921 aBerest, Anne, d1979-eauthor.10aLa carte postale. lEnglish10aTHE POSTCARD /cAnne Berest ; Translated from the French by Tina Kover.33iTranslation of: aLa carte postale. 1aLondon : bEuropa Editions, c2024 4c©2023 a475 pages ; c24 cm atext2rdacontent aunmediated2rdamedia avolume2rdacarrier tPromised lands -- tMemories of a Jewish child without a synagogue -- tFirst names -- tMyriam.  a"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, 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 Opéra Garnier in Paris. On the back, the names of Anne Berest's maternal great-grandparents, Ephraïm and Emma, and their children, Noémie and Jacques--all killed at Auschwitz. Fifteen years after the postcard is delivered, Anne, the heroine of this novel, is moved to discover who sent it and why. Aided by her chain-smoking mother, family members, friends, associates, a private detective, a graphologist, and many others, she embarks on a journey to discover the fate of the Rabinovitch family: their flight from Russia following the revolution, their journey to Latvia, Palestine, and Paris. What emerges is a moving saga of a family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling that shatters long-held certainties about Anne's family, her country, and herself."--Publisher marketing aTranslated from the French.10aBerest, Anne, d1979-xFamily vFiction10aJewish families vFiction 0aWorld War, 1939-1945 zFrance vFiction aBiographical fiction aDomestic fiction1 aKover, Tina A., etranslator.