La postal

It was in January 2003. In the mailbox of the family home, among the usual greeting cards, a strange postcard appeared without a signature. On the obverse, the Opera Garnier, and on the reverse, four proper names: those of Anne Berest's maternal great-grandparents -Ephraïm and Emma-, and their children -Noémie and Jacques-, all of whom died in Auschwitz in 1942. Who sent the card and with what sinister intention? Twenty years later, the author decides to find out and go back a hundred years to discover the fate of the Rabinovitch: their flight from Russia, their journey to Latvia, Palestine and Paris, and then the war. An exhaustive and exciting investigation, for which she has the help of her mother, a private detective and a graphologist, and that will lead her to question the inhabitants of the town where her relatives were arrested, to look for clues in the books and to delve into the life of the sole survivor: her grandmother Myriam.