{"product_id":"eve-out-of-her-ruins-paperback","title":"Eve Out of Her Ruins - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnanda Devi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Zuckerman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eJ. M. G. Le Clézio\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Devi writes about terrible and bitter events with a soft, delicate voice.\" -- \u003ci\u003eLe Figaro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluded in \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e's \"75 Notable Translations of 2016\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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; Clélio, belligerent rebel, waiting without hope for his brother to send for him from France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEve out of Her Ruins \u003c\/i\u003eis a heartbreaking look at the dark corners of the island nation of Mauritius that tourists never see, and a poignant exploration of the construction of personhood at the margins of society. Awarded the prestigious \u003ci\u003ePrix des cinq continents \u003c\/i\u003eupon publication as the best book written in French outside of France, \u003ci\u003eEve Out of her Ruins \u003c\/i\u003eis a harrowing account of the violent reality of life in her native country by the figurehead of Mauritian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book featurues an original introduction by Nobel Prize winner J.M.G. Le Clézio, who declares Devi \"a truly great writer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnanda Devi \u003c\/b\u003e(b. 1957, Trois-Boutiques, Mauritius) is a novelist and scholar. 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. She was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnanda Devi was born in 1957 in Trois-Boutiques, Mauritius, an island notable for its confluence of diverse ethnic, cultural, and linguistic identities. She studied ethnology and anthropology, and completed a doctoral thesis at SOAS in London. After several years in the Congo, she moved to Switzerland in 1989. She has published eleven novels as well as short stories and poetry over her entire career. \u003ci\u003eEve Out of Her Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published by the prestigious Gallimard publishing house in France in 2006, was an enormous critical and popular success, winning the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie for the best novel of the year written in French, previously won by such writers as Alain Mabanckou and Mathias Enard. She was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2010. Her first novel in English, \u003ci\u003eIndian Tango\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Host Publications in 2011. Devi has participated in numerous literary festivals in the US, Europe, and India, and her works have been translated into numerous languages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJeffrey Zuckerman is Digital Editor at \u003ci\u003eMusic \u0026amp; Literature\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and a translator from French. He has served on the 2016 jury for the PEN Translation Prize, and his translation of Antoine Volodine's \u003ci\u003eRadiant Terminus\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming from Open Letter Books in 2017. His writing and translations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest European Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e Daily, the \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was born in 1940 in Nice, France, but both parents had strong family connections with the former French colony of Mauritius. He is president and long-standing member of the prize jury for the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie (awarded to Ananda Devi's Eve Out of Her Ruins in 2006), and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 13, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760101523744,"sku":"9781941920404","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ff0b8d2175b42bc2d6e9daf8cc30e8a1.webp?v=1780171654","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/eve-out-of-her-ruins-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}