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Synopsis
Finalist for the inaugural TA First Translation Prize 2018
Shortlisted for the 2017 Best Translated Book Awards'
Winner of the 2017 Firecracker Award for fiction
Shortlisted for the Albertine Prize 2017
Winner of the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie 2006
With brutal honesty and poetic urgency, Ananda Devi relates the tale of four young Mauritians trapped in their country's endless cycle of fear and violence: Eve, whose body is her only weapon and source of power; Savita, Eve's best friend, the only one who loves Eve without self-interest, who has plans to leave but will not go alone; Saadiq, gifted would-be poet, inspired by Rimbaud, in love with Eve; Clelio, belligerent rebel, waiting without hope for his brother to send for him from France.
Eve out of Her Ruins is a heartbreaking look at the dark corners of the island nation of Mauritius that tourists never see, and a poignant exploration of lives at the margins of society. Published in the UK for the first time, this celebrated novel won the 2006 Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie.
With an original introduction by Nobel Prize winner Jean Marie G. Le Clezio, who declares Devi "a truly great writer."
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About the Author
Ananda Devi is a Mauritian and French author, born in Mauritius in 1957. Displaying a prodigious writing talent, Devi won her first literary prize at the age of fifteen for a short story in a Radio France Internationale competition. She has published eleven novels as well as short stories and poetry, and was featured at the PEN World Voices Festival in New York in 2015. Her literary awards include the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie (2006) and Prix Television Suisse Romande (2007) forEve de ses decombres, the Prix Louis-Guilloux (2010), the Prix Mokanda (2012). In 2010 Devi was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and in 2014 she was awarded the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la litterature francaises by the Academie Francaise. After a few years spent in Congo-Brazzaville, Devi moved to Ferney-Voltaire in Switzerland in 1989.
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- PublisherLes Fugitives
- Publication date2021
- ISBN 10 0993009344
- ISBN 13 9780993009341
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages176
- EditorAngeline Rothermundt
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