The Postcard
New York: Europa Editions, 2023. First edition thus. Hardcover. First edition in English translation from the French. Fine, fresh copy with slight wear to extremities in fine dust jacket with slight wear to extremities. Hardcover. 475 pp. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home in Paris. On the front, a photo of the Opera Garnier. On the back, the names of Anne Berest's maternal great-grandparents, Ephraim and Emma, and their children, Noemie and Jacques--all killed in Auschwitz. Fifteen years after the postcard is delivered, Anne is moved to discover who sent it and why. An enthralling investigation into family secrets, 'The Postcard' is a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, a family devastated by the Holocaust, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. Fine / fine. Item #E36163
ISBN: 9781609458386
Price: $36.50