{"product_id":"the-living-days-paperback","title":"The Living Days - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnanda Devi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Zuckerman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis novel of post-9\/11 London is a masterful dissection of racism, aging, and the perturbing nature of desire. Ananda Devi's fluid, poetic language memorably conjures a union of two outcasts (\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker). \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, a seventy-five-year-old white British spinster, and Cub, a thirteen-year-old Jamaican boy from Brixton. Mary increasingly clings to phantoms as dementia overtakes her reality, latching on to Cub and channeling all of her remaining energy into their relationship. But their macabre romance comes to a horrific climax, as white supremacy, poverty, and class conflict explode on the streets of London.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough exquisite juxtaposition, Devi uses lush prose to confront the tensions of an increasingly nationalistic metropolis, and the queasy nature of desire muddled with power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A gorgeously written, profoundly upsetting fairy tale of race, class, power, and desire.\" \u003cem\u003e--Kirkus Reviews, \u003c\/em\u003estarred review\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrutal and entirely believable, a gorgeous and haunting depiction of London and the real lives and memories of those unseen within it. --\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnanda Devi\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1957 in Mauritius, noted for its confluence of diverse ethnic, cultural and linguistic identities. Devi won her first literary prize at the age of fifteen for a short story in a \u003cem\u003eRadio France Internationale \u003c\/em\u003ecompetition. After a few years spent in Congo-Brazzaville, Devi moved to Ferney-Voltaire in Switzerland in 1989, where she lives today. She has published twelve 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 Télévision Suisse Romande (2007) for \u003cem\u003eÈve de ses décombres\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the Prix Louis-Guilloux (2010) and the Prix Mokanda (2012) for other works. 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 littérature françaises by the Académie Française. Her latest novel, \u003cem\u003eManger l'autre \u003c\/em\u003e(2018) won the Prix Étonnants Voyageurs. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeffrey Zuckerman\u003c\/strong\u003e is digital editor of \u003cem\u003eMusic \u0026amp; Literature Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. His translations from French include Ananda Devi's \u003cem\u003eEve Out of Her Ruins\u003c\/em\u003e (Deep Vellum 2016) and Antoine Volodine's \u003cem\u003eRadiant Terminus\u003c\/em\u003e (Open Letter 2017) as well as numerous texts by Marie Darrieussecq, Hervé Guibert, Régis Jauffret, and Kaija Saariaho, among others. A graduate of Yale University, his writing and translations have appeared in \u003cem\u003eBest European Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review Daily\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTin House\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eVice\u003c\/em\u003e. He is a recipient of a 2016 PEN\/Heim Translation fund grant for his translation from the French of \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Stories of Hervé Guibert\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 174\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769914818848,"sku":"9781936932702","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c4f756a023ed9815004e0a293fa6a113.webp?v=1780359697","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-living-days-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}