NPR's Scott Simon talks with Anne Berest about her new novel "The Postcard." It's based on the author's own family history and unwinds a mystery leading back to the Holocaust. An unsigned postcard ...

The success of what Berest calls her anxiety-filled “identity research” is an “encouraging sign of awareness by society of the Holocaust amid troubling times,” she told JTA. On a snowy day in 2003, ...

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“The Postcard,” a novel by the French author Anne Berest, opens on a snowy morning in a Parisian suburb: “My mother lit her first lung-charring cigarette of the morning, the one she enjoyed most, and ...

(JTA) — On a snowy day in 2003, Lélia Picabia received a postcard at her Paris home. Mysteriously, it contained only the first names of four of her ancestors who had perished in the Holocaust. A ...

The mysterious card, from 2003, is at the center of Anne Berest’s book, which is part detective story, part examination of French attitudes toward Judaism. By Laura Cappelle Laura Capelle reported ...

When Anne Berest began work on “The Postcard,” she didn’t know how the novel would end. In fact, she didn’t know if there was an end to the mystery based on her own family’s investigation into the ...

One snowy morning in January 2003, the French writer Anne Berest’s mother, Lélia Picabia, received a postcard in the mail. It was an ordinary tourist’s postcard, with an image of the Opera Garnier on ...

Anne and Claire Berest on the forgotten life of Gabriële Buffet, who influenced art – and caught the eye of everyone from Picabia to Picasso Eleanor Halls is a writer covering music, books, film and ...

The author sets out to discover what happened to her ancestors during the Holocaust in this gripping, poignant work Anne Berest’s work of autofiction, a bestseller in France and a finalist for the ...

An unsigned postcard arrives at the Berest home in Paris in January of 2003. A photo of the Opera Garnier is on the front - on the back, no message, just four names written in ballpoint pen - Ephraim, ...