“34 m²”, by Louise Mey: the two-room apartment of fear
Review With impressive stylistic dexterity and mastery of the closed-door setting, the writer transcribes the anger and distress of a young woman who has experienced control. A vivid demonstration of the mechanisms of domestic violence in a tight thriller. ★★★★★
Louise Mey was noted for two feminist thrillers, "The Second Woman" and "Little Dirty." DWAM IPOMÉE/JC LATTÈS
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Barely more than a hundred pages for Louise Mey to take us by the hand... and break us. Noted for her feminist thrillers ("The Second Woman," "Little Dirty"), the writer immerses us in the day of Juliette, mother of an 8-month-old baby girl born through medically assisted procreation. She savors her new apartment, the tranquility, the daylight filtering through the curtains, the house covered in jasmine across the street. However, one morning, it's not her neighbor Clare who knocks on the door as she usually does. It's him. The man Juliette fears and against whom she has erected a barrier, a fortress, a refuge. With impressive stylistic dexterity and mastery of the closed-door approach, Louise Mey transcribes the fear, anger, and distress of a young woman who has experienced control. A brilliant demonstration of the mechanisms of domestic violence in a tight thriller, tense from start to finish. Masterful.
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