Pushkin Press
Ananda Devi | All Flesh - Signed Copy
£12.95
9781805680123
23/04/26
PB
192 pages
SIGNED COPY
Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
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.
An elegant, feverish work of psychological literary horror. All Flesh is an absolute masterpiece of repugnantly beautiful prose. 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