{"product_id":"return-to-latvia-9781954404106","title":"Return to Latvia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A harrowing, culturally rich memoir.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBuilding upon her celebrated autobiography \u003ci\u003eDistant Fathers\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eReturn to Latvia--\u003c\/i\u003ea 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 of Riga and its southern forest, 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, \u003ci\u003eReturn to Latvia\u003c\/i\u003e 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 and in plain view.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marina Jarre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1954404107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954404106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Vessel Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/21\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/27\/2023","brand":"Marina Jarre","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44077022871807,"sku":"9781954404106","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_08061275-2582-4cec-932c-c0c15c6b1eec.jpg?v=1685467931","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/return-to-latvia-9781954404106","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}