Los padres lejanos

What is the homeland of those who do not have it or of those who have more than one? These unique memories begin during the 1920s in the capital of a vibrant and multicultural Latvia and expand into the transalpine valleys of Mussolini's fascist Italy. With a distinctive and precise writing, Marina Jarre describes the process of disintegration of a family as exceptional as it is conflictive: her handsome and irresponsible father, a German-speaking Jew, victim of the Shoah; her cultured and severe mother, an Italian Protestant who translated Russian literature; her sister Sisi hers, her French-speaking grandparents...