![]() ![]() And this refusal to be bound – this possibility of dreaming beyond and elsewhere – is the light within the ruins Devi has built for us. ![]() The island can, if only precariously, be unbound by the imagination. And yet, both the landscape and its inhabitants bear witness to beauty. Ruins are everywhere in Devi’s tale – in the bleak neighborhoods of Port Louis, Mauritius and in the hearts and souls of so many of the characters who live there. GLOVER on Eve out of her Ruins by Ananda Deviįour narrators and one small and devastating story they share and suffer together – these are the foundations of Ananda Devi’s devastating triumph of a novel, Eve Out of Her Ruins. Albertine booksellers have selected ten of the best French novels translated into English in the past year US-based readers can vote between March 16 and April 30th here. Eve out of her Ruins, a novel by Ananda Devi, translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, (Deep Vellum /US, Gallimard/FR) is long-listed for the Albertine Prize, a reader’s choice award. ![]()
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