Ananda Devi returns to Mauritius with a novel of a fugitive village
In her new book, the writer traces the descendants of enslaved people who fled colonial order to found Le Bouchon, an isolated village on the island.
Ananda Devi's new novel is set in Le Bouchon, an isolated village on Mauritius, according to France Culture's Le Book Club. The book follows the descendants of enslaved people who escaped the colonial order to settle there, weaving together documented history and local legend.
According to the same program, Devi uses this setting to examine how violence from the past is transmitted across generations, and how inherited memory sits alongside ancestral knowledge passed down within the community.
France Culture frames the book as a fresco of Mauritian history, built around this single village and the people who made their lives there after fleeing bondage.
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