Book Review: The Postcard by Anne Berest 

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!

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😊

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 just started this book on audible based on your review! Really liking it so far

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'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!

Great review! This sounds like just the type of book that I would enjoy. Adding it to the TBR.

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.