Ananda Devi 
Eve Out of Her Ruins 

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.

About the author

Ananda Devi was born in 1957 in Trois-Boutiques, Mauritius, an island notable for its confuence of diverse ethnic, cultural and linguistic identities. She studied ethnology and anthropology, and completed a doctoral thesis at SOAS in London. After several years in the Congo, she moved to Switzerland in 1989. Since 2000 she has published eight novels as well as short stories and poetry. She was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2010. She
has spoken and been interviewed at festivals in the US, Europe and India, but to date almost none of her work has been translated into English.