A child is born with an insatiable hunger. As a ravenous infant she is the undoing of her mother; under her father's adoring gaze, her body grows and grows. Her father claims she devoured her twin sister in the womb. Her classmates delight in tormenting her for her size. And inside this girl, so alone and so enraged, another hunger is born-for revenge.Bizarrely poetic and grotesquely humorous, All Flesh is a twisted fairy tale that tears apart hypocrisies around beauty, gender and a culture that relentlessly consumes the marginalized.



Born in Mauritius, Ananda Devi is one of the leading francophone writers of the Indian Ocean. Among her many awards are the 2024 Neustadt Prize and the Prix de la langue française, and she is the author of novels, short stories, nonfiction, and poetry. Her books available in English translation are Indian Tango, Eve Out of Her Ruins, The Living Days, and When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me. Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator from the French of 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. He is the recipient of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and, for the entirety of his work, he was named a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.



Sensual and provocative... [an] unforgettable narrator... carnal and gleefully filthy... The reader won't be able to look away from this singular work



An elegant, feverish work of psychological literary horror. All Flesh is an absolute masterpiece of repugnantly beautiful prose



A masterful allegory, a venomous critique of consumer society and the cult of the image



Her words mix violence and poetry... A dazzling novel



Monstrous but perfect



Ananda Devi dares allegory to its outer limits in this brilliant, unsettling creation