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Distant fathers / Marina Jarre ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldsmith.
Van Pelt Library PQ4870.A7 Z46 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jarre, Marina, 1925-2016, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Padri lontani. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Jarre, Marina, 1925-2016.
- Jarre, Marina.
- Jarre, Marina, 1925-.
- Latvians.
- Latvia--Biography.
- Latvia.
- Italy.
- Latvia--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Latvians--Italy--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 213 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Vessel Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- This singular autobiography unfurls from author Marina Jarre's native Latvia during the 1920s and '30s and expands south-ward to the Italian countryside. In distinctive writing as poetic as it is precise, Jarre depicts an exceptionally multinational and complicated family: her elusive, handsome father---a Jew who perished in the Holocaust; her severe, cultured mother---an Italian Protestant who translated Russian literature; and her sister and Latvian grandparents. Jarre tells of her passage from childhood to adolescence, first as a linguistic minority in a Baltic nation and then in traumatic exile to Italy after her parents' divorce. This memoir---likened to Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov or Annie Ernaux's The Years and now translated into English for the first time---probes questions of time, language, womanhood, belonging and estrangement, while asking what home-land can be for those who have none, or many more than one --Book Jacket.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: The Circle of Light
- Pity and Anger.
- ISBN:
- 1939931940
- 9781939931948
- OCLC:
- 1227064093
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