In Berest’s phenomenal English-language debut novel (after the nonfiction work How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are), the author pieces together stories of her ancestors who were lost at Auschwitz. In ...

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, ...

When Anne Berest received a mysterious postcard, it sent her on a quest to learn more about her Jewish family members who had died in the Holocaust. French author Anne Berest didn’t know much about ...

“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 ...

“Gabriële” considers a writer and pivotal figure of the 20th-century avant-garde who nurtured the talents of others. By Joanna Scutts Joanna Scutts is a literary critic, feminist historian and author.

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, ...