Trevor is not a fool. Trevor Wilkie was at a dead-end. He could feel every gram, every tonne of the farm collapsing on top of him. Every steer, every cow, every calf. Murray, wheezing, distantly; Fay, clutching her perch; Aiden, who was still a long way from finding his path.
And Harry, unsure what to think about anything. It was always going to come to this, he thought. The Hands is also a remarkable novel about the difficulties to be a farmer. In our Western world, we give more money to the people who take care of our money than to the ones who produce our food.
What does it say about us and our values? The Hands also gives an idea of life on a farm in the Australian outback. Orr describes perfectly the landscape:. Trevor studied the long, grey strip in front of them. He followed it half-way to the horizon before it was consumed by haze.
By then it was blood red, pulsing and shifting across the desert. He could tell it was alive, held in place by nothing more than a million distance markers. There was saltbush and bluebush and dead shrubs that looked the same as the living ones; a rest-stop with a single bin, but nothing else, as if this too was some forgotten skeleton. For a French, kilometres is quite a distance. I live in Lyon. The Hands gives a vivid picture of all this and of the life in autarky it implies.
I knew about the School of the Air. In the following quote, Fay is ill and Trevor is on the phone with a nurse or a doctor:. Carelyn already had the medical kit out. She was sorting the ointments, dressings and plastic vials full of dozens of types of pills; checking the bold numerals designed to make sure no one gave the wrong medication. She found the pills: They have a kit of medicine and the first step is self-medication with the help of an online physician.
And then, in case of emergency, they have The Flying Doctors: The heat is unbearable and murderous. But The Hands is more than a statement about life on a remote farm in a harsh climate. It is also a wonderful literary novel about a complicated and flawed family. He carries the traditions and the painful past of the family around his neck like a dead albatross. The problem is that Murray is toxic and dictatorial. The word was with Murray and Murray was the word.
Not for the first time, he could feel himself starting to hate his grandfather. Sometimes, I wanted to strangle Murray for the path of destruction left by his actions and his biting words. The life in autarky exacerbates the relationships between the family members. Nobody has a place to breathe out and interact with other people. The children grow up with no friends. They can only find sometime alone in the nature surrounding the farm. Do you manage to come out of your skin and have a work relationship and leave the parent-child one behind for a couple of hours?
How do you not feel trapped by family expectations? In her excellent review , Lisa explores the relationships between men in rural areas. It is a fascinating and decerning way of analysing The Hands. For French readers, sorry but The Hands is not available in French. But now it is listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Whispering Gums also reviewed it here , with a bonus post here. I had the pleasure to spend most of it with Marina Sofia and we had a great time wandering in the giant book store settled in the chamber of commerce and attenting conferences.
There were writers invited, around 50 panel debates, exhibits in museums, 10 independant bookstores, a treasure hunt in the city, a murder party and lots of other activities around crime fiction and police investigations. Sessions were at the chamber of commerce, in a nearby church, in the city hall, at the opera, at the theatre. Lots of places were involved to welcome the visitors.
Here is a picture about Lyon turning into crime fiction city:.
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I went to visit the police academy in the outskirts of Lyon. This is where the commissaires are trained. After a presentation of the school and a moment in the in-house museum, members of the CSI team gave us a demonstration of how they gather clues on a crime scene. There was a mock appartment with a murder in the kitchen and we were above the appartment, on a footbridge that allowed us to see what was happening below.
One police officer was performing the tasks of collecting clues and securing the crime scene while another was with us explaining what his colleague was doing. It was fascinating to see how they proceed on location, to hear about the precautions and the tools they use. It was a friendly visit and we had the opportunity to ask questions and chat with a future commissaire.
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