Silence Of The Chagos

Shenaz Patel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

178 Seiten

2019
Restless Books (Verlag)
978-1-63206-234-5 (ISBN)

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A powerful and timely exploration of cultural identity, the concept of home, and the neverending desire for justice.

Every afternoon a woman in a red headscarf walks to the end of the quay and looks out over the water, fixing her gaze 'back there': to the small island in the Indian Ocean that she and her people have been deported from. But the island is 'closed,' there is no going back. Charlesia waits in vain for a ship to take her and her fellow Chagossians back to their home on Diego Garcia. With no explanation, and only an hour to pack, the Chagossians are deported from Diego Garcia and relocated to Mauritius. Charlesia mourns the loss of her life on Diego Garcia, where she spent her days working on a coconut plantation and her nights listening to sega music with her family and friends. But most urgently, Charlesia seeks answers for how and why this injustice happened to her people. As Charlesia struggles to come to terms with her life on Mauritius, she crosses paths with Desire, a young man born on the one-way journey to Mauritius. Desire has never set foot on Diego Garcia, but as Charlesia unf

Shenaz Patel is a journalist and writer from the island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean. As a journalist, she has been a Reuter fellow and worked as editor in chief of a political newspaper before setting up the arts, culture and society section of Week End, a leading Mauritian weekly newspaper. Patel is the author of four novels, including Le silence des Chagos published in France by Editions de l’Olivier-Le Seuil and in English by Restless Books as The Silence of the Chagos (2019). She has written numerous short stories in French and Mauritian Creole as well as five graphic novels, two plays, and translations. Patel was an International Writers Program (IWP) Honorary Fellow in the U.S. in 2016, a fellow at the Hutchins Centre-W.E.B du Bois Institute at Harvard University for the Spring semester 2018, and acted as mentor for the Young Women Writers Mentorship Programme of the IWP in 2019. Patel staged a production of Niamain in 2019 (the story of an African princess enslaved in the 18th century). She is currently working on a novel based on the stories of women who have fought for freedom at different levels. She is also working on a documentary film related to the quest of identity through DNA testing. Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator of French, including books by the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Dardenne brothers, the queer writers Jean Genet and Hervé Guibert, and the Mauritian novelists Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza. A graduate of Yale University, he has been a finalist for the TA First Translation Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, and he was awarded the French Voices Grand Prize for his translation of Pina. In 2020 he was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2019
Übersetzer	Jeffrey Zuckerman
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 181 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	1-63206-234-8 / 1632062348
ISBN-13	978-1-63206-234-5 / 9781632062345
Zustand	Neuware