In her new novel 'The Martyrs, the Lovers,' nonabiding carefully reinvents Petra Kelly’s life and mysterious death in a way deeply resonant for our current day and age.
, Catherine Gammon carefully reinvents Petra Kelly’s life and mysterious death in a way deeply resonant for our current day and age.
Gammon’s protagonist is named Jutta Carroll, her lover is Lukas Grimm, and Gammon makes it clear that her use of Kelly’s life is meant to serve her storytelling. The fiction is exploratory in nature. It seduces the reader by way of exquisite language and pacing and a nonlinear approach, in addition to the depth and intensity of her research.
The novel begins and ends with the mystery of what was determined to be either a suicide pact or the murder and subsequent suicide of the surviving lover. Gammon conjures many potential scenarios for this cruel, unfathomable dual death. And she admits, “this, too, shall fail” to unravel the mysterious ending wherein a woman dedicated to a life of nonviolence could possibly agree to the double violence.
We get to know Lukas outside of the focalization by Jutta and our narrator. And of course Lukas, too, is fully reimagined. We are provided with a montage of his family, including his wife and the daughter who kills herself for her own inability to fathom her father’s participation in Hitler’s madness. At the same time, we are privy to Jutta’s family dynamics, especially her very close relationship with her grandmother and sister.
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