New York Jewish Book Festival - "The Postcard" with Anne Berest and Leslie Camhi

Date

Tuesday November 14

Time (Eastern Time)

5:00 PM  –  6:00 PM

Winner of the American Choix Goncourt Prize, the Prix Renaudot de lycéens, and the ELLE Readers Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life.  

Anne, the heroine of the novel, 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 of a family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling that shatters long-held certainties about Anne’s family, her country, and herself.  

Anne Berest will be joined in conversation by Leslie Camhi, an essayist, cultural journalist, and translator, who covered The Postcard for The New Yorker magazine. The Postcard will be available for purchase at shop.mjhnyc.org.  

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