Book Review: The Postcard by Anne Berest
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Great review! This is on my TBR thanks to you. It sounds soooo good! I really love well researched books and books that treat historical events respectfully😊
I just finished reading this and had the same thoughts and reactions as you. I absolutely loved this biographical novel. I’m happy that it wasn’t the “typical” WW2 story everyone is tired of reading. This is going to be one of the top of what I’ve read this year, for sure!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I really feel more people should be reading this one!
Agree 100 percent. Finished this last night. What I liked about this WWII story is it reads as a biography of a family. It is a real family with very little added so I think it shouldn't be considered a novel either. It also filled in a lot of details other books have left out.
I'm glad to hear that you liked it! This is probably my most recommended book from 2023!
Thank you for this deep dive. Added to my TBR and really excited to read once I'm in the right space for another historical read
I hope you enjoy it!
I just started this book on audible based on your review! Really liking it so far
I read this, but I actually learned about it on the Audiofile podcast about the audiobook and I think it would be a great audiobook!
I've heard nothing but good things about it, but probably needs a preparatory period and the right sequencing to be in a good frame of mind... and yes, I bet the narrator is amazing, too!
Yes, this is not an easy book in terms of subject matter (as far as language, it is quite readable). I do recommend going into it knowing that it has its tough moments.
Great review! This sounds like just the type of book that I would enjoy. Adding it to the TBR.
Yay! I hope you like it!
Thanks for this excellent review, I’ve had this on digital hold at my library, and while excited to read it, I really have to be in the right headspace for Holocaust books and kept delaying checking it out. I ended up removing my hold since I found out Hoopla has the audiobook, which I can access at anytime, no waiting, so I could have control over exactly when I want to read it. I thought it would be good as an audiobook as well.
This video has definitely moved it up the list. I’ve only had a handful of five star reads this year myself, and mainly memoirs and graphic novels and few novels. I’m really hungry for some good profoundly moving and life altering literary fiction.
I don’t know what you’re looking for in your fifth WWII novel, but I recommend reading Suite Francaise by Nemirovsky or The Passenger by Boschwitz, as two novels that were written contemporaneously, but then forgotten or lost until more recently resurrected. Another intriguing work written before the war and about events leading up to it that shocked me is the slim, epistolary novella Address Unknown by an American writer. It quite emphatically dismantles the idea that people did not know what was going on in Germany if this unknown female writer was writing this book at this time.
I read Suite Francaise when it was republished several years ago, but I don't remember that much about it. so I may reread it. I'll look into The Passenger as well. Someone (I think it was Greg at Supposedly Fun) was recently talking about Address Unknown, so I need to get that one on my TBR!