Summary of Return to Latvia
In “Return to Latvia”, Marina Jarre searches for traces of her murdered father in and around Riga. She seeks to understand what happened in 1941 when thousands of Jewish people were executed by the Nazis.
Reasons to read Return to Latvia
“Return to Latvia” is a compelling essay-memoir-documentary that explores the atrocities committed by the Nazis in Latvia and the role of the local Latvian people. Marina Jarre was a celebrated Italian writer, the daughter of a Jewish-Latvian father who was killed by the Germans in the forests south of Riga, and an Italian mother. She grew up in Latvia but moved to Italy at the age of ten and wrote her novels in Italian. In 2004, Marina Jarre won the Premio Grinzane Cavour for “Return to Latvia.”
Setting: Riga (Latvia)
Original title: Ritorno in Lettonia
Year of publication: 2004
Nr of pages: 336
