Postcard

In January 2003, the main character of the book found a postcard from an anonymous sender in her mailbox. One side was decorated with an image of the Paris Opera building, while the other side bore the names of the... narrator's great-grandmother and great-grandfather on her mother's side, along with two other relatives who died in Auschwitz in 1942. Twenty years later, the heroine decides to find out who sent this postcard. In knowing the world, don’t forget to know yourself... This is a very simply written book. But it is a family saga, a historical detective story, and an experience of social psychotherapy all at once! There will be many celebrities and a bunch of obscure characters, generously experiencing the anxieties and hopes of the 20th century. They will travel the world, hide, save someone, be sacrificed by others. Disappear and be reborn in their descendants. Such a story is not easy to translate! Traveling with the characters across the map of Europe and the world, we checked every landscape, every melody, scent, quote, biography... So that the reader could feel the spirit of the time and realize himself as its heir, and in knowing the world, know himself. Alla Belyak, translator About the author: Anne Berest is a French writer, actress, and screenwriter. She was born in 1979 in Paris. Her first novel, "Daughter of Her Father," was published in 2010, and that same year, the book was nominated for the Prix Goncourt. Berest wrote scripts for Audrey Diwan's film "The Event" (2021), based on the novel by Annie Ernaux, and for the Netflix series "Innocent Lie." Additionally, she acted in two films: "DNA" (2020) — with Louis Garrel and Fanny Ardent, and "The Edges of Love" (2022) — with Virginie Efira and Chiara Mastroianni. Together with her sister Claire, Anne wrote a literary biography of her great-grandmother Gabrielle Buffay-Picabia — an art historian, writer, Resistance participant, and the first wife of Dadaist artist Francis Picabia. Berest has also created several theatrical plays, including "Pedigree," inspired by the biography of Patrick Modiano, for the l’Atelier theater. "Postcard" is currently Anne's most famous novel; it has been translated into English and has won numerous literary awards, including the first American version of the Goncourt prize in history.