Portrait of an Island on Fire

Auteur

Ariel Saramandi is an Anglo-Mauritian writer living in Mauritius. Her fiction and essays have been published by Granta, the Los Angeles Review of Books and The White Review, among others. She has reported on Mauritius for the likes of the BBC and NBC. Her work has been supported by the Tin House Winter Workshop 2023 and the Stinging Fly Summer School 2023. She is a member of the MMM's Commission de Développement Durable.

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A deeply moving and revelatory reading experience, the essays collected in Portrait of an Island on Fire form an account of Mauritius at a crucial moment in its history.