Eve out of Her Ruins

A story told from the perspective of 4 teenagers living in the slums in Mauritius, surrounded by drugs, street gangs, prostitution and abuse. Everything is tinged with sadness and despair. The poetic prose is taking it a bit too far for my taste, and if you strip it of the poesy, the narrative feels a bit slim. Or maybe I just wasn't in the mood for a story that's so full of violence against women.

While Eve and Saad fit in organically, I felt Savita would have either needed more segments or could have been cut entirely, while Clelio felt a bit apart from the main story and harder to connect to. Definitely a short read.

Bleak. Beautiful prose.