Return to Latvia
by
Marina Jarre
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1954404107
ISBN-13
9781954404106
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Imprint
New Vessel Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 23rd, 2023
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
318 grams
Dimensions
13.30 x 20.50 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: general
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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 thousands were slaughtered in a 1941 mass execution by Nazi death squads with active participation by Latvian collaborators. Here she attempts to reconcile herself with her past, or at least to heal the wounds of a truncated childhood. Piecing together documents and memories, Return to Latvia explores immense guilt, repression and the complicity of Latvians in the massacres of their Jewish neighbors, highlighting vast Holocaust atrocities that occurred outside the confines of death camps in plain view.
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