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All Flesh

AvAnanda Devi

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

264 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

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 grace 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.

The Laugh of the Goddesses

AvAnanda Devi

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

240 kr

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When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me

AvAnanda Devi

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

194 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

A poetic, autobiographical collection from famed Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, engaging with loneliness, desire, violence, and aging.“I’m sick of biting off and chewing this dust, of scratching with my thin claws, searching for some chunk of literary gold to hell with all the disarrayed images of our homelands reflections of our particular misery.”From eminent Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, a collection that transgresses genre lines with poetic, autobiographical flow. The pieces herein address the resonance of personal memories and regrets, the political world, and sexuality. In light of the complexity of human identity, Devi emphasizes the importance of each word chosen, speaking directly to the reader and asking them to “peel back my skin. Unclothe me of myself.”

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All Flesh

AvAnanda Devi

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

157 kr

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'An elegant, feverish work of psychological literary horror. All Flesh is an absolute masterpiece of repugnantly beautiful prose' Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb

'A brilliant, unsettling creation' Chloe Aridjis, author of The Shadow of the Object

A child is born with an insatiable hunger. As a ravenous infant she is the undoing of her mother; under her father's adoring gaze, her body grows and grows.

Her father claims she devoured her twin sister in the womb. Her classmates delight in tormenting her for her size. And inside this girl, so alone and so enraged, another hunger is born-for revenge.

Bizarrely poetic and grotesquely humorous, All Flesh is a twisted fairy tale that tears apart hypocrisies around beauty, gender and a culture that relentlessly consumes the marginalized.

Eve out of Her Ruins

AvAnanda Devi

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

101 kr

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Two girls: Eve, whose body is her only weapon and source of power; Savita, Eve's best friend and the only one who loves her selflessly, planning to leave, but not without Eve. Two boys: Saadiq, gifted would-be poet, deeply in love with Eve; Clelio, the neighbourhood tough, waiting without hope for his brother to send for him from France. All are desperate to escape the cycle of fear and violence in which they are trapped. Winner of the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie 2006, shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2017, the Albertine Prize 2018 and the inaugural First Translation Prize 2018, Eve out of Her Ruins was published in English for the first time in 2016.

Eve Out of Her Ruins

AvAnanda Devi

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

235 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Winner of the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction"Devi writes about terrible and bitter events with a soft, delicate voice." Le FigaroIncluded in World Literature Today's "75 Notable Translations of 2016"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; Clélio, 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 the construction of personhood at the margins of society. Awarded the prestigious Prix des cinq continents upon publication as the best book written in French outside of France, Eve Out of her Ruins is a harrowing account of the violent reality of life in her native country by the figurehead of Mauritian literature.The book featurues an original introduction by Nobel Prize winner J.M.G. Le Clézio, who declares Devi "a truly great writer."Ananda Devi (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.

Living Days

AvAnanda Devi

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

148 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, an elderly white woman, and Cub, a British-Jamaican boy, and drives her crumbling world into heightened delusion. The two struggle to keep their footing as white supremacy, desperation and class conflict collide on the streets of London. Through exquisite juxtaposition, Ananda Devi exposes the tensions of an increasingly nationalistic and polarised metropolis. At once realistic and fantastical, The Living Days encapsulates Devi's daring, unflinching talent and paints an unforgettable portrait of London at it's most bewitching, and most dangerous.

Le jour des Caméléons

AvAnanda Devi

Häftad, Franska, 2025

149 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Le Rire des déesses

AvAnanda Devi

Häftad, Franska, 2024

144 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Eva ur spillrorna

AvAnanda Devi

Inbunden, Svenska, 2020

269 kr

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»Det handlar om ett betydande författarskap Romanen Eva ur spillrorna är, för att säga något i kritikersammanhang banalt, den bästa roman jag läst på länge.« Kaj Schueler i Svenska Dagbladet

10/10 dagensbok.com

Evas liv är i spillror. Hon lever i den fattiga förorten Troumaron utanför Mauritius huvudstad Port Louis, där hon tidigt fick lära sig att andra ser hennes kropp som en handelsvara. Här har textilfabriken där kvinnorna arbetade lagts ned, och männen försöker återvinna sin auktoritet genom att dricka. Här en evighet från paradisstränderna är de unga utlämnade åt sig själva. Poeten Sad, rebellen Clélio, den ambitiösa Savita: alla bär de på drömmar, och alla vill de rädda Eva men för de fyra vännerna framstår den spiral av våld och hämnd de dragits in i som omöjlig att ta sig ur.

Ananda Devis Eva ur spillrorna är en omskakande och dramatisk roman om fyra vänner som berövats såväl barndom som framtid, framberättad på ett språk som är lika sparsmakat som det är vackert.

Ananda Devi föddes 1957 på ön Mauritius utanför Afrikas östkust, ett land präglat av sin våldsamma koloniala historia och med en stor mångfald av etniska, kulturella och språkliga identiteter. Devi kommer från en indiskättad familj men skriver huvudsakligen på franska, ibland med inslag av kreolska. Hon har ett tjugotal böcker bakom sig, såväl romaner som novell- och diktsamlingar. Eva ur spillrorna blev en stor framgång när den gavs ut i Frankrike och tilldelades ett flertal priser, bland annat det prestigefyllda Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie. Romanen har också filmatiserats.

Maja Thrane är författare, översättare och litteraturkritiker.