![]() ![]() ![]() They spread a pool of oil around them, in which their bored faces and their footsteps are reflected. If you care about your life, your body, if you’re a girl, if you’re old, you’d do best to give them a wide berth. The boys swear oaths, declare rules, make alliances: a pack mentality. As Eve, the most prominent of the book’s four main characters, puts it at the start of the novel: “There’s a guard at the end of each street. ![]() Most of this atmosphere is generated by the city’s men (when is it not?). It is an environment, based on a penurious district of the city known as Troumaron, that is steadily oppressive, potent with agitation, pulsingly sinister, pervasively menacing. Eve Out of Her Ruins is a spare, traumatic and enriching novel, newly and superbly translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman, which takes place in the city of Port Louis on the island-nation of Mauritius. ![]()
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