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• W4386544056 abstract "Reviewed by: Past Life by William Lane Venus Fultz William Lane. Past Life. Yarravile: Transit Lounge Publishing. 2021. 261 pp. ISBN 9781925760781 The ripples of trauma Past Life is a novel that weaves several narratives together to create an expanded view of the generational trauma that comes from war. The novel is separated into two parts. Part 1 opens with Anna, a refugee from Russia who came to Australia with her adopted mother. Anna soon discovers a passion for photography; that passion leads us to an orchard where an old man lives in a shed on the property. Friedrich is also a Russian refugee, once an infamous Russian writer forced to translate for the Germans during the war. He shoots himself soon after meeting Anna and leaves behind a letter; while the novel never lets the reader finish reading the letter, we intuit that he is Anna's birth father. The novel then moves to a chapter centered on Julia, Anna's birth mother, who does not survive the war. Part 1 lays the groundwork on which part 2 builds. Imagery from Friedrich and Julia's life, from childhood memories to [End Page 169] their struggles in the war, reappears in the life of Robin, a young Australian man who is childhood friends with a woman who grew up in the orchard. Although Robin is not related to Anna, Friedrich, or Julia, he finds himself falling in love with Anna, writing a biography about Friedrich, and thus becoming acquainted with their trauma surrounding the war. The trauma later inspires Robin to write a novel spanning the ripple effects of war on generations. This novel is ambitious, and yet, reading it, I found myself wanting more of the stories that the novel uses as groundwork. Anna and her family's trauma are the crux of the novel, and their lives are rich and compelling, but once part 1 concludes, their trauma is filtered through Robin and a third-person narrator. Indeed, the third person dominates the novel, except for letters and novel and diary excerpts from Friedrich. The novel posits art as a form of expression for grief and trauma, and we see this explored in Friedrich's writing; however, other than knowing that Anna is a renowned photographer and that she has an ongoing project of photographing the orchard, we never get her perspective about engaging with her art. The entire orchard, while consistently mentioned, loses much space to Robin's war novel, and we never learn the overall fate of Anna's project. Perhaps this omission is meant as a comment on how trauma and grief do not have an end, but why sacrifice Anna's project for an outsider's novel? Past Life is a well-constructed novel, tight in its plotting and with engaging and thoughtful prose. However, the addition of a male writer who filters the trauma of others, primarily women, was rather a little too fourth wall for my tastes. This choice becomes tedious Be sure that both before and after commas are removed along with though when it is revealed that Robin's childhood friend Iris, with whom he lives and has fathered a child, is the daughter Anna gave up for adoption in her youth. Iris is disgusted to discover that she is Anna's daughter, a woman Robin was all but married to. This revelation seems only to force the pattern of abandoned daughters. Julia was killed in Russia and could not raise Anna. Anna was young and not ready to be a mother when Iris was born, and now Iris feels as though she has committed pseudo-incest and will probably flee, leaving her daughter behind. The core of the novel touts itself as exploring the ripple effects of war trauma, but because we are not with Anna when she relinquishes her baby and we have no frame of reference for her action, there is no connection to the repetition beyond needing to repeat. So why is this crucial repetition of mothers being unable to raise their children glossed over? There is a tension between Robin and the family's generational trauma because he is invested as a writer and as..." @default.
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• W4386544056 title "Past Life by William Lane (review)" @default.
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