Awards

• Winner of Burgess Award 2018
• Winner of PEN award 2019 (UK)
• Winner of the SoA's Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation 2020
• Won the English Pen Translates Award in 2019

Overview

"""It is rare to say about a book that you have never read anything like it, and this is one such case."" Elle ""A pure diamond, a magnificent event. A mind-blowing debut novel."" Le Point Eel is a 17-year-old girl who leaves her rock on the archipelago of Comoros to lose herself at sea. She drifts between two states of mind and between two islands 'in a hollow maze', evoking her memories so as to forget nothing and so as to delay the inevitable outcome. Confronted with the pressing immediacy of imminent death, Eel recounts the story of her whole life in one long, sustained breath, in a series of brief couplets. A story told in a single sentence, A Girl Called Eel is a memorial, a reckoning, and a powerful narrative imbued with a prevailing sense of urgency."

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It is rare to say about a book that you have never read anything like it, and this is one such case. - Elle A pure diamond, a magnificent event. A mind-blowing debut novel. - Le Point

A pure diamond, a magnificent event. A mind-blowing debut novel. - Le Point

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Ali Zamir was born on Anjouan in the Comoros. He studied French Literature at the University of Cairo and attained his Master's degree from there in 2010. He has since returned to Anjouan where he has been the Director of Culture and Cooperative Activities for the island since 2014. First published in French as Anguille sous roche by Le Tripode in 2016, A Girl Called Eel is his first novel.

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