All Flesh
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All Flesh
2999
A child is born with an insatiable hunger. As a ravenous infant she is the undoing of her mother; under her father's adoring gaze, her body grows and grows.
Her father claims she devoured her twin sister in the womb. Her classmates delight in tormenting her for her size. And inside this girl, so alone and so enraged, another hunger is born-for revenge.
Bizarrely poetic and grotesquely humorous, All Flesh is a twisted fairy tale that tears apart hypocrisies around beauty, gender and a culture that relentlessly consumes the marginalized.
Jeffrey Zuckerman is 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. He is the recipient of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and, for the entirety of his work, he was named a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
An elegant, feverish work of psychological literary horror. All Flesh is an absolute masterpiece of repugnantly beautiful prose -- Lucy Rose, author of 'The Lamb'
Ananda Devi dares allegory to its outer limits in this brilliant, unsettling creation -- Chloe Aridjis, author of 'The Shadow of the Object'
Sensual and provocative... [an] unforgettable narrator... carnal and gleefully filthy... The reader won't be able to look away from this singular work * Publishers Weekly *
A masterful allegory, a venomous critique of consumer society and the cult of the image * Télérama *
Her words mix violence and poetry... A dazzling novel * RTS *
Monstrous but perfect * Le Soir *
Her father claims she devoured her twin sister in the womb. Her classmates delight in tormenting her for her size. And inside this girl, so alone and so enraged, another hunger is born-for revenge.
Bizarrely poetic and grotesquely humorous, All Flesh is a twisted fairy tale that tears apart hypocrisies around beauty, gender and a culture that relentlessly consumes the marginalized.
Details
ISBN13: 9781805680123
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 192
Edition:
Publication Date: 21 Jul 2026
Publisher: Scholastic US
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.9(L)
Weight (gm):
Author Biography
Born in Mauritius, Ananda Devi 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 Indian Tango, Eve Out of Her Ruins, The Living Days, and When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me.Jeffrey Zuckerman is 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. He is the recipient of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and, for the entirety of his work, he was named a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
Reviews
Blackly comic... This powerful story is deeply physical, but driven by a compelling voice * Guardian *An elegant, feverish work of psychological literary horror. All Flesh is an absolute masterpiece of repugnantly beautiful prose -- Lucy Rose, author of 'The Lamb'
Ananda Devi dares allegory to its outer limits in this brilliant, unsettling creation -- Chloe Aridjis, author of 'The Shadow of the Object'
Sensual and provocative... [an] unforgettable narrator... carnal and gleefully filthy... The reader won't be able to look away from this singular work * Publishers Weekly *
A masterful allegory, a venomous critique of consumer society and the cult of the image * Télérama *
Her words mix violence and poetry... A dazzling novel * RTS *
Monstrous but perfect * Le Soir *