Missing

ISBN-13: 9780992277956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 244 str.

Ruth Skilbeck

Opis

'Know thyself' is a Greek proverb. But what does it mean? Something is missing. But she can't think what it is. Mysterious art dealer, the Countess Rivers, is jailed in Australia for the traumatic murder she cannot remember. In Ruby's adopted artworld high society life in London, acting the part and role-playing replaced authenticity. Ruby, amnesiac, kept up appearances. Then she and her husband Sir Hugo Rivers go to Australia to collect art. She returns to encounter a life forgotten. A triangular love affair, Margarita and Raymond, troubled artist; a disappeared friend, lover, daughter. What is the significance of the woman violinist playing Bach's unfinished fugue that haunts her? Who did what? Missing is book one in the Australian Fugue series by Ruth Skilbeck which will explore silencing, trauma, and identity in postcolonial family life, after-affects of unknown hidden histories and mysteries of self in denial, how one appears to self and others, and the need to go beyond disguise, deception, and reinvention, to find truths of lost self-identity. The author of The Writer's Fugue and a cultural essayist this fictional novel addresses an issue of complex significance in global contemporary society. When is forgetting salve and when is it denial? To forget and move on you need first to remember. In this compelling novel she explores the need to remember and acknowledge the past in order to know truths of identity, lay ghosts, and seek a deeper understanding through the process of art and writing, and justice.An earlier longer version of this book was first published in 2014, and limited edition, as Australian Fugue: The Antipode Room. Parts of this, not included in Missing, will be republished in another edition later in the series.

Mysterious Ruby Love, also known as the Countess Rivers, has been convicted of a murder she cannot remember. As she writes in her cell, she is carried away on a journey into memory in a fugue of voices, and hallucinations of music. Ancient Greek philosophy and numerology that Bach believed in weave the background to this fugue mystery.