Eve Out of Her Ruins
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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 out of Her Ruins is a heartbreaking look at the Mauritius tourists don't see, and an exploration of the construction of personhood at the margins of society.
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A story told from the perspective of 4 teenagers living in the slums in Mauritius, surrounded by drugs, street gangs, prostitution and abuse. Everything is tinged with sadness and despair. The poetic prose is taking it a bit too far for my taste, and if you strip it of the poesy, the narrative feels a bit slim. Or maybe I just wasn't in the mood for a story that's so full of violence against women.
While Eve and Saad fit in organically, I felt Savita would have either needed more segments or could have been cut entirely, while Clelio felt a bit apart from the main story and harder to connect to. Definitely a short read.
