Noir austral
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Noir Austral is a French-language 2006 novel by French author Christine Adamo
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toward what will become Australia. It is a chaotic and cadaver-ridden course and a fight against climatic evolution
. Through centuries, the odyssey reveals a challenging cohabitation with other species
and soon a violent confrontation with white Caucasian
newcomers.
In an additional contemporary plot, Liz, a young Australian woman, moves to France in search of her lost origins. But behind its postcard appearance, the small Provence
village where her mother had lived is not what it seems to be. Somebody tries to drown Liz into the pond near her new house, just before the young woman finds a dead body in this pond. Liz is still far from knowing what or who she will have to fight, what or who has followed her from Sydney, from a past that she did not even suspect.
Besides the criminal aspects, the story is a novelistic presentation of the history of humankind, trying to make the reader look at the world differently and make them understand that differences are really relative.
Christine Adamo
Christine Adamo is a French writer who comes from the world of the sciences. Specialized in environmental information, she writes thrillers which cross science, history and suspense.-Novels:...
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Plot
The book begins with a dive into the journey of an Aboriginal tribe which, in 70,000 BCE, crosses the straits of SundaSunda Strait
The Sunda Strait is the strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. It connects the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean...
toward what will become Australia. It is a chaotic and cadaver-ridden course and a fight against climatic evolution
Evolution
Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...
. Through centuries, the odyssey reveals a challenging cohabitation with other species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
and soon a violent confrontation with white Caucasian
Caucasian race
The term Caucasian race has been used to denote the general physical type of some or all of the populations of Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia , Central Asia and South Asia...
newcomers.
In an additional contemporary plot, Liz, a young Australian woman, moves to France in search of her lost origins. But behind its postcard appearance, the small Provence
Provence
Provence ; Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a region of south eastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...
village where her mother had lived is not what it seems to be. Somebody tries to drown Liz into the pond near her new house, just before the young woman finds a dead body in this pond. Liz is still far from knowing what or who she will have to fight, what or who has followed her from Sydney, from a past that she did not even suspect.
Besides the criminal aspects, the story is a novelistic presentation of the history of humankind, trying to make the reader look at the world differently and make them understand that differences are really relative.
Release details
- 2006, France, Liana Levi, ISBN 2-86746-414-5, Pub date 4 April 2006
- 2008, France, Folio policier (Gallimard), ISBN 978-2-07-034157-3, Pub date 8 April 2008
- 2007 (Nel Cuore d'Australia), Italy, Reportage 2000 (Touring Editore), ISBN 9788836543786
- 2009 (Australish Zwart), Netherlands, De Geus, ISBN 978-90-445-1032-4