by Jenny Diski · Granta Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781862070493
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«Skating to Antarctica» is Jenny Diski's memoir and travel book, published by Granta Books in paperback (264 pages, in English).
Jenny Diski travels to Antarctica while her teenage daughter decides to investigate the maternal grandmother she never knew. The journey towards the ice intertwines with the author's return to her childhood, marked by a violent mother and a conman father, and with the question that accompanied her for over thirty years: what became of her mother.
The book was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize for non-fiction in 1998.
A read for those seeking introspective non-fiction about mother-daughter relationships and family memory.
Jenny Diski FRSL was an English novelist, non-fiction writer and memoirist. She was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books; articles and essays she wrote for the publication are in the collections Don't and Why Didn't You Do What You Were Told? Her memoirs include In Gratitude, The Sixties, Skating to Antarctica, and Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions, for which she won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
