"An unusual story about a gifted but doomed young artist that grows in poignancy as it accelerates towards its tragic end."
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Michael Peppiatt, author of Francis Bacon in Your Blood and In Giacometti’s Studio
“Jarre unfolds the collective history, trauma, and (post)memory of the Holocaust in Latvia . . . Return to Latvia is at the same time a novel, an autobiography, a memoir, a travelogue, an essay, and a writer’s diary. It even resembles a detective story.”
Reading in Translation