Eve Out of Her Ruins

Winner of the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction

"Devi writes about terrible and bitter events with a soft, delicate voice." — Le Figaro

Included 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, th…