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Ananda Devi gives voice to young people on Port Louis’s impoverished margins. Nathacha Appanah depicts Jewish wartime refugees in Mauritius, migration on Mayotte and family breakdown in France. Shenaz Patel reconstructs the experience of Chagossians forcibly displaced to Mauritius. The selection connects the island with the wider Indian Ocean and diaspora.
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Four young people in Port Louis seek freedom amid poverty and violence.
Original title: Ève de ses décombres
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego / Wydawnictwo w Podwórku · 2019
Translated by Krzysztof Jarosz
Edition source ↗A Mauritian boy’s friendship with a Jewish refugee reveals the history of a wartime island camp.
Original title: Le Dernier Frère
Orphaned Moïse enters a world of violence and teenage gangs on Mayotte.
Original title: Tropique de la violence
A teenager’s car accident forces a fractured family to revisit its painful past.
Original title: Le Ciel par-dessus le toit
The story of deported Chagossians examines the loss of home and the struggle to return.
Original title: Le Silence des Chagos
A novel of female desire, identity and moving beyond family expectations.
A London story of loneliness, age and an unexpected encounter.
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