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A memoir by Italian-Latvian author Marina Jarre. Steeped in the history of twentieth-century Europe, this memoir probes questions of time, language, womanhood, belonging and estrangement, while asking what homeland can be for those who have none, or many more than one.

Building upon her celebrated autobiography Distant Fathers, Italian author Marina Jarre returns to her native Latvia for the first time since she left as a ten-year-old girl in 1935. In Return to Latvia?a masterful collage-like work that is part travelogue, part memoir, part ruminative essay?she looks for traces of her murdered father whom she never bid farewell. Jarre visits the former Jewish ghetto and the forest south of Riga where tens of ...

This memoir unfurls from author Marina Jarre's native Latvia during the 1920s and '30s and expands southward to the Italian countryside. Jarre tells of her passage from childhood to adolescence, first in a Baltic nation and then in exile to Italy, where she finds fascist Italy a problematic home for a Riga-born Jew.

This singular autobiography unfurls from author Marina Jarre's native Latvia during the 1920s and 30s, and expands southward 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 Lutheran who translated Russian literature, and her sister and Latvia...