Anne Berest is the bestselling co-author of HOW TO BE PARISIAN WHEREVER YOU ARE 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.

Books by Anne Berest

The Postcard

written by Anne Berest, translated by Tina Kover - Fiction, Historical Fiction

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. Years after the postcard is delivered, the heroine of this novel is moved to discover who sent it and why. What emerges is a moving saga of a family devastated by the travails of the 20th century and partly restored through the power of storytelling.