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Distant Fathers (Paperback)
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Distant Fathers (Paperback)
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List price R345
Loot Price R281
Discovery Miles 2 810
You Save R64 (19%)
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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' Vivian Gornick 'Her masterwork'
New York Times 'Rich and lyrical... Jarre's life is fascinating'
New Statesman 'Ann Goldstein's shimmering translation of Jarre's
prose delivers into English a European masterpiece' Benjamin Taylor
'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century' Il Libraio
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' divorce. There, she lived with her maternal grandparents
among a community of French-speaking Waldensian Protestants and
experienced the hostility of fascist Italy in the 1930s. Published
in Italy in 1987 and now translated into English for the first
time, Distant Fathers probes questions of memory, language,
womanhood, belonging and estrangement, while asking what a homeland
can be for those who have none, or many more than one.
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