Ananda Devi

WINNER OF THE 2024 NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman

Published in September 2016 in co-edition with CB editions.

Temporarily out of print.

Winner of the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie 2006 and of the CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction 2017
Finalist for the inaugural TA First Translation Prize 2018, the Albertine Prize 2017, and the Best Translated Book Award 2017

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; Clélio, 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.

‘Here is a truly great writer.’ — J. M. G. Le Clézio

‘“One day we wake up and the future has disappeared.” So begins adult life in Troumaron, a run-down area of Port-Louis, in Mauritius. But Devi’s young protagonists resist this erasure; boldest among them is Eve, one of the most compelling fictional characters I‘ve ever encountered – she’s up there with Ferrante’s Lila. And fans of Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels will also recognise in Devi’s account of marginalised urban lives a similar commitment to the truth of how the dispossessed struggle. An extraordinary novel, beautifully translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman.’ — Natasha Soobramanien, author of Genie and Paul

‘I was so locked into Eve out of Her Ruins, I went the wrong way down the Piccadilly line for 6 stops.’ — Lara Pawson, author of This Is the Place to Be

By the same author: The Living Days (2020) and Eve Out of Her Ruins - YA edition (2021). The text of this edition is the integral text of the 2016 trade edition, with the addition of a preface by the author.

First edition (grey cover with French reverse flaps) out of print
2nd edition (pink cover) 176 pages, temporarily out of print
paperback, 180 x 120 mm
isbn 978-0-9930093-4-1