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The Living Days

The Living Days

by Ananda Devi (Author), Ananda Devi (Author), Cecile Menon (Editor), Cecile Menon (Editor), Jeffrey Zuckerman (Translator)

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 174
 Publisher: Les Fugitives
Published: 13 Jan 2020
ISBN 10: 1999331842
ISBN 13: 9781999331849
Book Overview: - Reviews across the broadsheets and magazines, including Guardian, Observer, Independent, Times Literary Supplement and Financial Times. - Reviews from Bookforum and Words Without Borders, and interviews from Asymptote and Electric Literature. - Thematically related essays by Jeffrey Zuckerman, the translator, for Bookforum online and Words Without Borders. - Launch event with Rathbone Folio Prize and Ted Hughes award winning poet Raymond Antrobus, at Waterstones Gower Street. - For fans of Aminatta Forna (Happiness) and Monique Roffey.

Media Reviews
`Beautifully written, visceral and ecstatic. Unafraid, as Angels might be, to bear witness to the force of entropy pulling us all towards death.' (Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young). `A demanding and important book by a true artist and a great writer'.' (Lara Pawson, author of This Is the Place To Be).`The finest Mauritian novelist at work today, Ananda Devi has long been the francophone saint of the outcast, the oppressed, and the derelict. This fluid translation of one of her darkest works gives the reader a glimpse at her profound talent and her unique ability to synthesize political rage with poetic lyricism.' (Adam Hocker, Albertine). `A fierce portrait of our times. . . Sensual and provocative writing, woven of dreams and nightmares, which slowly closes around the reader and holds them in its grasp.' (Le Monde des Livres). `Old age always bears a private violence. Ananda Devi describes its inevitable symptoms whilst ever letting us glimpse an illusion of spring.' (L'Humanite).
Author Bio
Ananda Devi was born in 1957 in Mauritius, and currently lives in Switzerland. She is the award-winning author of twelve novels as well as short stories and poetry. Devi is the recipient of the 2020 Bay Area Book Festival/Words Without Borders grant. Jeffrey Zuckerman is digital editor of Music & Literature magazine. He also translated Devi's Eve Out of Her Ruins.