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- Jacaranda Books
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation
Anguille is a 17-year-old girl who leaves her rock on the archipelago of Comoros to lose herself at sea.
Confronted with the pressing immediacy of imminent death, Anguille recounts the story of her whole life in one long, sustained breath, in a series of brief couplets."It is rare to say about a book that you have never read anything like it, and this is one such case." Elle
"A pure diamond, a magnificent event. A mind-blowing debut novel." Le Point
Eel is a 17-year-old girl who leaves her rock on the archipelago of Comoros to lose herself at sea. She drifts between two states of mind and between two islands 'in a hollow maze', evoking her memories so as to forget nothing and so as to delay the inevitable outcome.
Confronted with the pressing immediacy of imminent death, Eel recounts the story of her whole life in one long, sustained breath, in a series of brief couplets.
A story told in a single sentence, A Girl Called Eel is a memorial, a reckoning, and a powerful narrative imbued with a prevailing sense of urgency.
Praise for A Girl Called Eel
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This is a whirlwind of a book - narrated by a girl called Eel who is clinging to a rock out in the ocean and who sees her life flashing before her eyes. It is a marvellous work of fiction that is part myth, part fairy-tale, and part allegory, which at the same time manages to be hard-hitting and political. A fast read, but such a good one.
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