Mireille Juchau
Auteur de The World without Us
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Mireille Juchau has a PhD in writing and literature and teaches at universities and in the community. She is an Australian author who writes novels, short fiction, essays, scripts and reviews. Her books include Machines for Feeling, Burning In, and The World without Us, which won the Victorian afficher plus Premier's Literary Awards 2016 in the Fiction category. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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- Australia
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- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- novelist
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short-story writer
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- Œuvres
- 4
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- 1
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How each of them handles his loss is unique, but each of them does it somewhat by cutting off the world as much a possible. Tess stops talking, Jim runs to another life in the small town where he crosses path with the Mueller family, Stefan concentrates all his energy onto the bees he keeps, and Evangeline shuts out her family and pursues a less intimate (or ultimately more intimate) relationship with a stranger.
It is not the plot of this story that moves it forward, although there is a lot of hinting at a mysterious occurrence at the commune that was burned and from which Evangeline escaped, there is a body that needs to be explained and there are relationships that predate Evangeline's marriage that still impact her present. It is rather the inward turnings of these people that keep you involved and aching to understand. It is pathos but without melodrama, tragedy tinged with hope.
Juchau writes in a disjointed style, revealing only tidbits of information as she proceeds and making the reader decipher the clues to these people as if they were jigsaw puzzles that needed to be assembled to be understood. In the beginning this feels foreign and difficult, but as it proceeds it begins to feel right. It begins to feel as if this is a reflection of how we really get to know about people and how people really being to know about themselves. Which of us thinks in straight lines? Who doesn't seek the answer in some bad places before they light upon the truth, sometimes on their own doorstep?
My thanks to Bloomsbury Publishing, Mireille Jachau and Goodreads for an opportunity to read and review this marvelous work in return for an honest review. I recommend it highly and will most happily read other works by Mireille Jachau...a very impressive author indeed.… (plus d'informations)