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Anne Berest reads "La carte postale
30.11.2021
On Tuesday November 30, 2021 from 7pm to 8pm, Anne Berest will read extracts from her book “La carte postale” (Éditions Grasset, 2021). The reading will take place in the Salle Michel Piccoli at Villa Médicis.
Reading in French (without translation) followed by an exchange with the audience.
Free event, advance booking required at this link.
Places limited, doors open at 6:30pm, event at 7:00pm.
Please remember to cancel your Eventbrite booking if you no longer wish to participate, so that we can offer the opportunity to others to attend the event.
In January 2003, amidst the traditional greetings cards,Anne Berest found a strange, anonymous postcard in her letterbox, with the Opéra Garnier on one side, and on the other, the first names of four members of her family who died in Auschwitz in 1942. Twenty years later, she decides to investigate with the help of her mother, a private detective and a criminologist, and retraces the Rabinoviches’ romantic destiny. Anne Berest also seeks to understand how her grandmother, Myriam, was the only one to escape deportation. This moving book is at once an investigation, a novel of her ancestors, and an initiatory quest into the meaning of the word “Jew” in a secular life.
Anne Berest published her first novel in 2010, La fille de son père (Seuil). This was followed by Les patriarches (Grasset, 2012), Sagan 1954 (Stock, 2014) and Recherche femme parfaite (Grasset, 2015). Gabriële, co-written with her sister Claire (Stock, 2017) tells the story of Francis Picabia and Gabriële Buffet, their great-grandparents. She is also the author of plays: La Visite, Les filles de nos filles (Actes Sud, 2020) and a Mytho series (Arte, Netflix), which has won numerous awards in France and abroad. Her latest book, La carte postale (Grasset), is one of the highlights of the new literary season.
