{"product_id":"all-flesh-paperback","title":"All Flesh - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnanda Devi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Zuckerman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA ticking bomb of teenage savagery that blows the hypocrisies and prejudice of society to smithereens.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBullied at school with near-hellish doggedness by cold-hearted classmates and fattened at home with increasingly extravagant feasts by an overindulgent father, the voracious narrator of \u003ci\u003eAll Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e trudges through her teen years certain that her heft is because she has absorbed her twin sister in utero and is now eating, and living, for two. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs those around her look down on her corpulence, she struggles to see who she might be beyond such narrow-mindedness. When a near-fatal incident unexpectedly brings a man and a heady experience of the body's other pleasures into her life, she gets a decadent taste of a future she had never dared to imagine. But she is beset once more by sharp tongues and beady eyes until, finally, she devises a drastic way to turn the tables on her tormentors and the whole unjust world. But will her coup de grâce prove self-possessed, or self-destructive? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAll Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e, Ananda Devi's keenly lyrical prose presents a darkly humorous mirror that bitingly reflects and shatters the double standards around how we talk about bodies, women, beauty, and food, and how society consumes, obsesses over, and vilifies humanity's excesses.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Mauritius, \u003cb\u003eAnanda Devi\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the leading francophone writers of the Indian Ocean. Among her many awards are the 2024 Neustadt Prize and the Prix de la langue française, and she is the author of novels, short stories, nonfiction, and poetry. Her books available in English translation are \u003ci\u003eIndian Tango\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEve Out of Her Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Living Days\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Zuckerman \u003c\/b\u003eis a translator from the French of books by the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Dardenne brothers, the queer writers Jean Genet and Hervé Guibert, and the Mauritian novelists Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza. A graduate of Yale University, he has been a finalist for the TA First Translation Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, and has been awarded a PEN\/Heim translation grant, the French Voices Grand Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell and the National Endowment for the Arts. For the entirety of his work, he was named a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.2 x 5.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52044391416109,"sku":"9780374619176","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/all-flesh-paperback-5141334.webp?v=1780170786","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/all-flesh-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}