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A hazy, riotous novel from the Mauritian French-language author Carl de Souza, KAYA DAYS reimagines the 1999 island race riots (which came after the death of a popular seggae singer while in police custody) as an explosive journey to the end of the night, one animated by huge personalities, revolutionary violence, and the beautiful possibility of another world.

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A hazy, riotous novel from the Mauritian French-language author Carl de Souza, KAYA DAYS reimagines the 1999 island race riots (which came after the death of a popular seggae singer while in police custody) as an explosive journey to the end of the night, one animated by huge personalities, revolutionary violence, and the beautiful possibility of another world.
Autorenporträt
Carl de Souza is a Mauritian novelist, short story writer, and academic. He began writing in French around 1980, with Halley's La Cométe receiving the Pierre Renaud Prize in Mauritius in 1986. His works are based on the history of Mauritius and its people. Kaya Days, a dramatization of the race riots following the death of the seggae singer Kaya, will be published by Two Lines Press in 2021 in translation from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman. It is his first work to be translated into English. He lives in Mont Piton, Mauritius.