| Description |
475 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Originally published in French as "La carte postale" in 2021 by Editions Grasset & Fasquelle. -- title page verso |
| Contents |
Promised lands -- Memories of a Jewish child without a synagogue -- Fire names -- Myriam. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Language |
Translated from the French. |
| Subject |
Berest, Anne, 1979- -- Family -- Fiction.
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Anonymous letters -- Fiction.
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Jews -- Europe -- Fiction.
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Jewish families -- Fiction.
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Jews -- Fiction.
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Exiles -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction.
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France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Biographical fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Berest, Anne, 1979-
La carte postale. English.
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Kover, Tina A., translator.
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| ISBN |
9781609458386 |
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1609458389 |
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