The Postcard av Anne Berest

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<p><strong>¿A deeply moving book.¿ ¿LEILA SLIMANI *** ¿A work of rare grace and importance.¿¿<em>THE GUARDIAN</em></strong></p><p>In January 2003, the Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Op¿ Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives who were killed in Auschwitz: Ephra¿ Emma, No¿e and Jacques.</p><p>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.</p><p>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, <em>The Postcard</em> tells the story of a