{"product_id":"9781803280943-distant-fathers","title":"Distant Fathers","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe extraordinary autobiography of novelist Marina Jarre, tracing her identity and relationships through a turbulent era of European history. 'Beautifully ingenious' \u003cb\u003eVivian Gornick\u003c\/b\u003e 'Her masterwork' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 'Rich and lyrical. Jarre's life is fascinating' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 'Ann Goldstein's shimmering translation of Jarre's prose delivers into English a European masterpiece' \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIl Libraio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eDistant Fathers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40945351131233,"sku":"9781803280943","price":14.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/363a8a7424a44df84797b92c07325a91.png?v=1692881300","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781803280943-distant-fathers","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}