All Flesh - Couverture souple

Devi, Ananda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374619174 ISBN 13 : 9780374619176

Editeur : FSG Originals, 2026

Synopsis

A ticking bomb of teenage savagery that blows the hypocrisies and prejudice of society to smithereens.

Bullied at school with near-hellish doggedness by cold-hearted classmates and fattened at home with increasingly extravagant feasts by an overindulgent father, the voracious narrator of All Flesh trudges through her teen years certain that her heft is because she has absorbed her twin sister in utero and is now eating, and living, for two.

As those around her look down on her corpulence, she struggles to see who she might be beyond such narrow-mindedness. When a near-fatal incident unexpectedly brings a man and a heady experience of the body's other pleasures into her life, she gets a decadent taste of a future she had never dared to imagine. But she is beset once more by sharp tongues and beady eyes until, finally, she devises a drastic way to turn the tables on her tormentors and the whole unjust world. But will her coup de grâce prove self-possessed, or self-destructive?

In All Flesh, Ananda Devi's keenly lyrical prose presents a darkly humorous mirror that bitingly reflects and shatters the double standards around how we talk about bodies, women, beauty, and food, and how society consumes, obsesses over, and vilifies humanity's excesses.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator from the French of books by the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Dardenne brothers, the queer writers Jean Genet and Hervé Guibert, and the Mauritian novelists Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza. A graduate of Yale University, he has been a finalist for the TA First Translation Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, and has been awarded a PEN/Heim translation grant, the French Voices Grand Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell and the National Endowment for the Arts. For the entirety of his work, he was named a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: FSG Originals
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374619174
• ISBN 13: 9780374619176
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible