Description: THE POSTCARD By Anne Berest A Great Gift Idea ! - for a friend - or just for yourself ! Europa Editions, New York, 2023. Hardcover. SIGNED! SIGNED! SIGNED! Beautiful, Brand New! First Edition Thus (Europa English Edition) PERSONALLY SIGNED directly on the full title page. (NOT signed to anyone) NOT SIGNED ON BLANK PUBLISHER'S TIPPED-IN PAGE!! Book is Fine, Brand New and Unread. No marks, no inscription. Dust jacket is Brand New, NOT price-clipped, in a protective mylar cover. A Must Have For Any Anne Berest Fan !! ~ A BEAUTIFUL AUTOGRAPHED FIRST EDITION THUS FOR COLLECTORS ~ Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling.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 that shatters long-held certainties about Anne’s family, her country, and herself. Reviews Named a Most Anticipated Book by the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Bustle, Book Riot, VogueNamed a May ABA Indie Next PickWinner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, the Prix Renaudot des lycéens, and the ELLE Readers Prize“Powerful, meticulously imagined... The Postcard (translated into a lucid and precise English by Tina Kover) takes its readers on a deep dive into one Jewish family’s history, and, inextricably, into the devastating history of the Holocaust in France... [A] powerful literary work... that contains a single grand-scale act of self-discovery and many moments of historical illumination.”—Julie Orringer, The New York Times Book Review “Moving…Ms. Berest has done her research, artfully weaving grim facts and figures into her family history…Let’s hope that a book like this, which encompasses both the monstrosities of the past and the dangers of the present, will guard us from complacency.”—Heller McAlpin, The Wall Street Journal“In what feels like a literary magic trick, Berest transforms her own family’s complex and heartbreaking Holocaust history into a novel that masterfully blends elements of drama, mystery and philosophy. It’s propulsive yet deep—an intimate, exacting contemplation of loss that somehow ends in love.”—Kate Tuttle, People Magazine“Stunning...[The Postcard] leaves us wondering whether the opposite of memory is not forgetting, but rather indifference.”—Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker“The Postcard is...a powerful exploration of family trauma...transmitted in the womb or down the generations; a longing for what we don’t know and can never know of the people whose lives are responsible for our own existence, and an internalization of the very worst that humans can do to one another, visited on one’s own family.”—Lauren Elkin, The Washington Post “Reading this novel is intimate...It is as though Berest has taken us by the hand to lead us through the family home and search for the family graves that don’t exist. Who are your invisible ones? she continues to ask through the tour, and we are forced to answer, both on her account and our own.”—Virginia Reeves, New York Journal of Books“The Postcard recreates in stunning detail the lives of Berest’s lost family members and weaves them into a detective story, loosely centered on the postcard.”—The New York Times“A can’t-miss novel.”—Chicago Review of Books“Undeniably compelling...A testament to the power of imagination and an investigation of empathy.”—Vogue, A Most Anticipated Book of 2023“Intimate, profound, essential.”—ELLE Magazine★ “Phenomenal...powerful...brilliant.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)About the AuthorAnne Berest is the bestselling co-author of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are (Doubleday, 2014) and the author of a novel based on the life of French writer Françoise Sagan. With her sister Claire, she is also the author of Gabriële, a critically acclaimed biography of her great-grandmother, Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, Marcel Duchamp’s lover and muse. She is the great-granddaughter of the painter Francis Picabia. For her work as a writer and prize-winning showrunner, she has been profiled in publications such as French Vogue and Haaretz newspaper. The recipient of numerous literary awards, The Postcard was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize and has been a long-selling bestseller in France. Tina Kover’s translations for Europa Editions include Antoine Compagnon’s A Summer with Montaigne and Négar Djavadi’s Disoriental, winner of the Albertine Prize and the Lambda Literary Award, and a finalist for both the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the PEN Translation Prize. ** We have several signed copies of this book. 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Publication Name: Gene : an Intimate History
Book Title: The Postcard
Item Length: 9.2in.
Publisher: Scribner
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Item Height: 1.6in.
Author: Anne Berest
Item Width: 6.1in.
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 608 Pages
