Distant Fathers av Marina Jarre

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The extraordinary autobiography of novelist Marina Jarre, tracing her identity and relationships through a turbulent era of European history. ''Beautifully ingenious'' <b>Vivian Gornick</b> ''Her masterwork'' <b><i>New York Times</i></b> ''Rich and lyrical... Jarre''s life is fascinating'' <b><i>New Statesman</i></b> ''Ann Goldstein''s shimmering translation of Jarre''s prose delivers into English a European masterpiece'' <b>Benjamin Taylor</b> ''One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century'' <b><i>Il Libraio</i></b>In distinctive, lyrical prose Jarre depicts an exceptionally multinational and complicated family: her elusive, handsome father, a Jewish man who perished in the Holocaust; her severe, cultured mother, an Italian Lutheran who translated Russian literature; her sister and Latvian grandparents. Shifting between past and present, Jarre narrates her coming-of-age; first as a linguistic minority in a Baltic nation and then in traumatic exile to Italy after her parents''