Burning in /Mireille Juchau.
Juchau, Mireille,
Burning in /Mireille Juchau. - Artarmon, NSW : Giramondo Publishing Company, (c)2007. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue; PART ONE; Some Slight Magic; Everything Transfigured; Walking Backwards; Visitations; PART TWO; Lost; The Open Secret; Sanctuary; PART THREE; Oblivion; Burning In; Acknowledgements.
This is a novel about mothers and daughters, about the way the hidden past plays itself out in the present, and the conflicts between professional commitment and the responsibilities of family life. The story is told by a young woman, Martine, who translates the emotional distance she senses in her mother, Lotte, a holocaust survivor, into a passion for photography. Martine leaves Sydney to live in New York, in order to further her career, and has a child of her own. One day, her daughter Ruby goes missing in Central Park, while in the care of a nanny. The disappearance of her daughter throws.
9781922146069 9781920882778
Australian fiction.
Australian literature.
Electronic Books.
PR9619 / .B876 2007
Burning in /Mireille Juchau. - Artarmon, NSW : Giramondo Publishing Company, (c)2007. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue; PART ONE; Some Slight Magic; Everything Transfigured; Walking Backwards; Visitations; PART TWO; Lost; The Open Secret; Sanctuary; PART THREE; Oblivion; Burning In; Acknowledgements.
This is a novel about mothers and daughters, about the way the hidden past plays itself out in the present, and the conflicts between professional commitment and the responsibilities of family life. The story is told by a young woman, Martine, who translates the emotional distance she senses in her mother, Lotte, a holocaust survivor, into a passion for photography. Martine leaves Sydney to live in New York, in order to further her career, and has a child of her own. One day, her daughter Ruby goes missing in Central Park, while in the care of a nanny. The disappearance of her daughter throws.
9781922146069 9781920882778
Australian fiction.
Australian literature.
Electronic Books.
PR9619 / .B876 2007