Join us at The Gallery for an author luncheon and discussion with Anne Berest
\n\nTHE POSTCARD
\n\nFriday\, October 13\, 2023 11:30am - 1:30pm
\n\n202 E Wisconsin Avenue
\n\nLake Forest\, IL 60045
\n\nBooks available for purchase and signing.
\n\n$85 includes lunch and a book.
\n\nSpace is limited\, please RSVP at 847-234-4420
\n\nWinner of the Choix Goncourt Prize\, Anne Berest&rsquo\;s \;The Postcard \;is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life\, an enthralling investigation into family secrets\, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling.
\n\nJanuary\, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards\, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front\, a photo of the Opé\;ra Garnier in Paris. On the back\, the names of Anne Berest&rsquo\;s maternal great-grandparents\, Ephraï\;m and Emma\, and their children\, Noé\;mie and Jacques&mdash\;all killed at Auschwitz.
\n\nFifteen years after the postcard is delivered\, Anne\, the heroine of this novel\, is moved to discover who sent it and why. Aided by her chain-smoking mother\, family members\, friends\, associates\, a private detective\, a graphologist\, and many others\, she embarks on a journey to discover the fate of the Rabinovitch family: their flight from Russia following the revolution\, their journey to Latvia\, Palestine\, and Paris. What emerges is a moving saga that shatters long-held certainties about Anne&rsquo\;s family\, her country\, and herself.
\n\nAnne Berest is the bestselling co-author of \;How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are \;(Doubleday\, 2014) and the author of a novel based on the life of French writer Franç\;oise Sagan. With her sister Claire\, she is also the author of \;Gabrië\;le\, a critically acclaimed biography of her great-grandmother\, Gabrië\;le Buffet-Picabia\, Marcel Duchamp&rsquo\;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.
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