The Postcard

A moving novel from the bestselling author of "How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are."

"A work of rare grace and importance." — The Guardian

In January 2003, the Berest family receives a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side is an image of the Opéra Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives who were killed in Auschwitz: Ephraïm, Emma, Noémie, and Jacques.

Years later, Anne seeks to uncover 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, and 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.

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, "The Postcard" tells the story of a family devastated by the Holocaust and yet somehow restored by love and the power of storytelling.