Portrait of an Island on Fire by Ariel Saramandi Groundswell Speaker 2024 2023 National Book Award for

2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature

Georges-Louis de Buffon

of Scottish and Irish ancestry

he’s spent many dull years monitoring their orphanages

Treasures – practical tools

Portrait of an Island on Fire by Ariel Saramandi Groundswell Speaker 2024 2023 National Book Award forA deeply moving and revelatory reading experience, the essays collected in Portrait of an Island on Fire form a searing account of Mauritius at a crucial moment in its history. Unceasing in its critiques of racist, patriarchal abuses of power, in its unpicking of the ills at the core of contemporary Mauritian society and their roots, the collection is a milestone in thinking about the lasting social and political effects of colonialism and how they