All Flesh
Description
<b>'An elegant, feverish work of psychological literary horror. All Flesh is an absolute masterpiece of repugnantly beautiful prose' Lucy Rose, author of <i>The Lamb</i></b>
<b>'A brilliant, unsettling creation' Chloe Aridjis, author of <i>The Shadow of the Object</i></b>
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, <i>All Flesh</i> is a twisted fairy tale that tears apart hypocrisies around beauty, gender and a culture that relentlessly consumes the marginalized.
Reviews / Votes
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 * An elegant, feverish work of psychological literary horror. All Flesh is an absolute masterpiece of repugnantly beautiful prose -- Lucy Rose, author of 'The Lamb' A masterful allegory, a venomous critique of consumer society and the cult of the image * Telerama * Her words mix violence and poetry... A dazzling novel * RTS * Monstrous but perfect * Le Soir * Ananda Devi dares allegory to its outer limits in this brilliant, unsettling creation -- Chloe Aridjis, author of 'The Shadow of the Object'More details
Persons
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 Herve 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.