Eve Out of Her Ruins - Couverture souple

Devi, Ananda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0993009344 ISBN 13 : 9780993009341

Editeur : Les Fugitives, 2017

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."

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Born in Mauritius, Ananda Devi is a multi-award winning novelist, short-story writer and poet. Translated into a dozen languages, she is considered a powerful voice in modern African writing in French. Winner of the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature for the entirety of her work, she holds a PhD in social anthropology from SOAS, London, where she lived for several years. She has also lived in Congo-Brazzaville and currently resides in Ferney-Voltaire, France.

Jeffrey Zuckerman was born in the Midwest and works in New York as an editor and a translator from French. His recent and forthcoming translations include Ananda Devi's Eve out of Her Ruins and The Living Days as well as Antoine Volodine's Radiant Terminus, Thomas Clerc's Interior, and Jean Genet's The Criminal Child; he has also contributed shorter texts and translations to The New Republic, The Paris Review Daily, The White Review, and VICE. After graduating with honors from Yale University, he worked for various agents and editors in book publishing, was a judge for the 2016 PEN Translation Prize, and is now Digital Editor at Music & Literature Magazine. He is a recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for his ongoing work on the complete stories of Herve Guibert.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Les Fugitives
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0993009344
• ISBN 13: 9780993009341
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
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• Personne responsable: non disponible