Paris. Editions Stock. 2024. 304 pages.Who would have thought that Alina Gurdiel’s idea to put a Japanese tradition on its head would have such editorial success? Her “Ma nuit au musé…
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Photo by Shevaun Williams It is perhaps not a coincidence—or else it is a very felicitous one—that, in the very same month of my receiving the Neustadt Prize, my first and last books came out toget…
- Paris. Grasset. 2023. 272 pages. The Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius, which is known for its ethnic and linguistic diversity, has produced three particularly notable novelist…
- Dallas, Texas. Deep Vellum. 2016. 160 pages.When tourists visit the island of Mauritius, located off the east coast of Africa, they see gorgeous beaches and luxury hotels and not the hopelessness and…