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Marina Jarre was born in 1925 in Riga to a Latvian Jewish father and an Italian Protestant mother. She spent her childhood in Latvia until 1935, when her parents separated and she moved to Italy to live with her maternal grandparents. By the time of her death in 2016, Jarre had written over a dozen novels, short story collections and works of non-fiction, of which Distant Fathers is hailed as her masterwork. Ann Goldstein is a New York-based editor and translator, renowned for her work on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet. A former editor at the New Yorker, Goldstein has also translated works by Primo Levi, Jhumpa Lahiri and other great Italian language writers. |
