The Junk , Sarah Waters Alto Publishing, 2010, translated from English by Alain Defossé (Original title: The Little Stranger )
Beautiful beautiful object and reading junk The , the last of Sarah Waters takes the reader in a scary story where parapsychology and chronic social meet.
Dr. Faraday has a small county town of Warwickshire , just after the Second World War. It is called Hundreds Hall, a huge mansion once wealthy, now in complete abandonment to treat Betty, the domestic domain. This is an opportunity for him to befriend the family Ayres, he already knew her as a young child. Caroline and Roderick are now living with their mother and poorly dog Caroline, Gyp. The family fortune is gone with the war and no longer to renovate this building too large for the three.
From there, over 500 pages, Dr. Faraday will witness dramatic and unexplained phenomena taking place in Hundreds Hall. Alongside this story troubling links between Faraday and Dr. Ayres family will grow beyond the social conventions of the time.
Sarah Waters, born in Wales in 1966, was librarian and a teacher before embarking on writing. His first novel, Tipping the Velvet (Tipping the Velvet ) has been so successful that it has been adapted for British television (and the next two as well). Regarded as a writer of gay and lesbian literature, Sarah Waters has also - and above all - interested in London life in the nineteenth century (Victorian era), then the Second World War and postwar.
It successfully explores a new style in The Junk , and although the story may have a swim, rubs his novel turns Dickens, Poe and Jane Austen ...
true social chronicle of England's post-war The Junk continues where Nightwatch (his previous novel) stopped: the impact of dramatic World War II and personal dramas that were played in Nightwatch somewhat overshadowed the social transformation of England at that time. The Junk in , the author draws on the same footing the fantastic side and side office to develop the full scope of its dramatic history. So that even the reader is confronted with the anxieties of the narrator, flirting with madness ...
The vocabulary is rich, and descriptions Hundreds Hall absolutely live, making the house a full-fledged character.
edition offered by the house Alto is a gem, giving us the impression of browsing a scrawl. Not trimmed its edge like many English editions of books and gives it a touch old-fashioned.
Sarah Waters, with The Junk was nominated for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009 for the second time since his appointment in 2006 to Night Watch (The Night Watch ).
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