by Anne Berest · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246820499
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«La carte postale» is the novel by Anne Berest, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (512 pages, in French).
In January 2003, Anne Berest receives an anonymous postcard with the names of her great-grandparents, her great-aunt and her great-uncle, deported and murdered at Auschwitz in 1942. Twenty years later, she undertakes an investigation to discover who sent it, with the help of her mother, a private detective and a criminologist. The inquiry goes back a century and reconstructs the fate of the Rabinovitch family from Russia to Latvia, Palestine and Paris, trying to understand how her grandmother Myriam was the only one to escape deportation.
Novel winner of the Prix Renaudot des lycéens 2021 and the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle 2022.
For readers interested in historical novels and family investigations around the Holocaust and Jewish memory.
Anne Berest is a French writer and actress.
