{"product_id":"distant-fathers-by-marina-jarre-9781803280950","title":"Distant Fathers","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe extraordinary autobiography of novelist Marina Jarre, tracing her identity and relationships through a turbulent era of European history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Beautifully ingenious”\u003c\/b\u003e – Vivian Gornick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Her masterwork”\u003c\/b\u003e – \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Rich and lyrical... Jarre's life is fascinating”\u003c\/b\u003e – \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Ann Goldstein's shimmering translation of Jarre's prose delivers into English a European masterpiece”\u003c\/b\u003e – Benjamin Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century”\u003c\/b\u003e – \u003ci\u003eIl Libraio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShifting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46805034860780,"sku":"9781803280950","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/823803482830.jpg?v=1757421408","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/distant-fathers-by-marina-jarre-9781803280950","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}