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'It has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers and her younger sister Meg, but the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother, Evangeline, goes each day, pushing an empty pram and returning home wet, muddy and dishevelled.
'Their father, Stefan, struggling with his own losses, tends to his apiary and tries to understand why his bees are disappearing. But after he discovers a car wreck and human remains on their farm, old secrets emerge to threaten the fragile family.
'One day Tess's teacher Jim encounters Evangeline by the wild Repentance River. Jim is in flight from his own troubles in Sydney, and Evangeline, raised in a mountain commune and bearing the scars of the fire that destroyed it, is a puzzle he longs to solve.
'As the rainforest trees are felled and the lakes fill with run-off from the expanding mines, Tess watches the landscape of her family undergo shifts of its own. A storm is coming and the Müllers are in its path.
'Sometimes we must confront what has been lost so that we can know the solace of being found.
'The World Without Us is a beautifully told story of secrets and survival, family and community, loss and renewal.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: For Roger and Guy
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A short review for this novel appeared in World Literature Today Vol. 93 Issue 3, p47
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Works about this Work
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Settler Belonging in Crisis : Non-Indigenous Australian Literary Climate Fiction and the Challenge of “The New”
2023
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— Appears in: ISLE : Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment , Winter vol. 30 no. 4 2023; (p. 952–971) -
Seeking Greener Pages : An Analysis of Reader Response to Australian Eco- Crime Fiction
2023
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— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , May no. 71 2023; 'IN THEIR WORK ON HOW NARRATIVE MAY HELP AUDIENCES THINK DIFFERENTLY ABOUT other species, Wojciech Malecki et al. refer to the ‘narrative turn’ within academia and its proliferation of research that addresses how ‘moral intuitions often yield to narrative persuasion’ (2). In other words, many scholars are currently asking whether narratives can persuade readers to reflect on and perhaps reconsider their own moral beliefs. The research presented in this paper follows a similar trajectory in its discussion of the results and possible implications of a reader response study that investigated how Australian readers respond to works of Australian eco-crime fiction that portray non-humans and global ecological issues such as climate change in a local Australian context. Resonant with ‘narrative persuasion’—the idea amongst social scientists that ‘a narrative is a catalyst for perspective change’ (Hamby et al. 114)—we consider the capacity of such texts to possibly engage readers with the plight of non-humans in Australia under the impacts of climate change.' (Introduction) -
Australian Fiction Is Already Challenging the Idea That Catastrophic Bushfire Is Normal
2020
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 14 January 2020;'The stories we tell about bushfire are changing. Our writers have been grappling with its link to climate crisis for years'
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The Stella Interview : Mireille Juchau
2018
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— Appears in: The Stella Interviews 2018;'Mireille Juchau is the author of 2016 Stella Prize shortlisted book, The World Without Us. We chatted to Mireille about her mentors, favourite authors and the spaces in which she works.'(Introduction)
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What I’m Reading – Kate Mildenhall
2017
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— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2017;
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There's a Sting in the Tale as Communal Calamity Looms
2015
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— Appears in: The Age , 1 August 2015; (p. 29) The Sydney Morning Herald , 1 August 2015; (p. 29)
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What to Do When the Buzz Wears off
2015
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 1-2 August 2015; (p. 21)
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Mireille Juchau : The World Without Us
2015
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— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , September 2015;
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An Environment of Fissures and Fractures
2015
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— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 13 September 2015; (p. 12)
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Consolation
2015
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 374 2015; (p. 12)
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Annette Marfording’s Best Reads of 2015
2015
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— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October - December no. 16 2015; -
Miles Franklin Award Longlist 2016 : Five Out of Nine Nominees Are Women
2016
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 5 April 2016; Includes The 2016 Miles Franklin longlist -
Utopia and Utopian Studies in Australia
2016
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— Appears in: Utopian Studies , vol. 27 no. 2 2016; (p. 200-209) 'There are no independently Australian translations of Thomas More’s Utopia. Nor is there any equivalent in Australia to the Society for Utopian Studies in North America or the Utopian Studies Society in Europe. Nor are there any extant formal research groups or undergraduate or graduate courses in utopian studies. There are, however, distinctively Australian traditions of utopian writing, both eutopian and dystopian, and also a limited field of Australian utopian studies, essentially the work of individual scholars. This article attempts a brief description of both.' (Publication summary) - y The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau Melbourne : CAE Book Group , 2016 12215143 2016 single work criticism
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The Stella Interview : Mireille Juchau
2018
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Stella Interviews 2018;'Mireille Juchau is the author of 2016 Stella Prize shortlisted book, The World Without Us. We chatted to Mireille about her mentors, favourite authors and the spaces in which she works.'(Introduction)
Awards
- 2018 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — Award for Fiction
- 2017 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- 2016 shortlisted Voss Literary Prize
- 2016 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
- 2016 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award