Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze

Mar 3, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Jonathan Nossiter |Hervé Le Corre |Adrienne Brodeur |Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze

Anne Berest, trans. from the French by Tina Kover. Europa, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-1-60945-838-6In Berest’s phenomenal English-language debut novel (after the nonfiction work How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are), the author pieces together stories of her ancestors who were lost at Auschwitz. In 2003, when Anne is 24, her mother, Lélia, receives a cryptic postcard containing only the names of four relatives, all of whom died in the Holocaust.