The award-winning work, which feautures a writer and her chainsmoking mother, has been translated into English by Tina Kover and published via Europa Edition.
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 origin of an unusual postcard.
Berest, author of “How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are,” researched and wrote “The Postcard” while she and her mother were in the midst of solving that mystery. “I was thinking to myself, if I don’t find the resolution, the readers, they will be furious,” Berest recalls. After all, she was writing “The Postcard” in the style of a detective novel. There had to be a resolution.
“I’m a writer, but I’m not a historian,” says Berest. “So, before I wrote the book, I knew what everybody knows.” She adds, “I delve into the concept of how ancestors survive within us, even when we have no knowledge about them and even when don’t even know their first names.” She adds, “It was funny because we made the investigation together and we went on like two very bad detectives in the movies, always arguing with each other.”
In the end, the mother-and-daughter team of sleuths does learn the origins of the postcard. “I was so moved,” Berest says of the revelation. “Life has more imagination than me. I was so happy to discover the person.”
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