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Kaya Days

Kaya Days - Paperback

by Carl de Souza
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Availability:In StockContributor:Carl de Souza, Jeffrey Zuckerman (Translator)Publish date:2021-09-14Pages:178
Language:EnglishPublisher:Two Lines PressISBN-13:9781949641196ISBN-10:1949641198UPC:9781949641196Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, PoliticalSize:6.90 x 4.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCNTKKNTR0

"Nearly impossible to put down." --NPR

In 1999, the Mauritian musician Joseph Réginald Topize, better known as Kaya, was arrested for smoking weed while performing at a concert. Following his death in police custody just days later, the island nation surged with violence in a long-overdue demand for justice from the marginalized populations of the African island off the coast of Madagascar.

In Kaya Days, the spirit of the island and its many people--Hindu, Muslim, Chinese, Franco-Mauritian, and Creole--is distilled into a young woman's daylong search through the uproar for her younger brother, who has gone missing. Amid burning cars and buildings, opportunists and revolutionaries, Santee rises into another world, a furious, brilliant one. An exhilarating journey into night from a small Hindu village to the big city, and from innocence into womanhood, Carl de Souza's surreal English-language debut, artfully translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, is an explosion of politics and poetry, a humid dream-world of revolutionary fervor where seemingly anything--everything--is possible.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Two Lines PressISBN-13:9781949641196ISBN-10:1949641198UPC:9781949641196Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, PoliticalSize:6.90 x 4.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCNTKKNTR0
de Souza, Carl: - Carl de Souza is a Mauritian novelist, short story writer, and academic. He began writing in French around 1980, with Halley's La Cométe receiving the Pierre Renaud Prize in Mauritius in 1986. His works are based on the history of Mauritius and its people. Kaya Days, a dramatization of the race riots following the death of the seggae singer Kaya, will be published by Two Lines Press in 2021 in translation from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman. It is his first work to be translated into English. He lives in Mont Piton, Mauritius.Zuckerman, Jeffrey: - Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator of French and the Digital Coordinator at Music & Literature magazine. His translations include Ananda Devi's Eve Out of Her Ruins, the diaries of the Dardenne brothers, and Jean Genet's The Criminal Child. He has also contributed shorter pieces to Frieze, The New Republic, The NYRDaily, The Paris Review Daily, The White Review, and VICE. Jeffrey studied English literature and literary translation at Yale University, and has served as a judge for the PEN Translation Prize and the National Translation Award. He is a recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for his ongoing work on the complete stories of Hervé Guibert.
Publisher: Two Lines Press

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Carl de Souza, Jeffrey Zuckerman (Translator)

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Carl de Souza

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