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About the Book
Anguille is a 17-year-old girl who leaves her rock on the archipelago of Comoros to lose herself at sea. She drifts between two states of mind and between two islands 'in a hollow maze', evoking her memories so as to forget nothing and so as to delay the inevitable outcome.

Confronted with the pressing immediacy of imminent death, Anguille recounts the story of her whole life in one long, sustained breath, in a series of brief couplets. But what Anguille recounts, in an assured voice which heralds a shipwreck, is also something other than her life something much deeper below the ground, or rather the sea, which has to do with the species and what is immemorial. It is the story of a fight for survival in which everyone becomes a predator.

A story told in a single sentence, A Girl Called Eel is a memorial, a reckoning, and a powerful narrative imbued with a prevailing sense of urgency.

About the Author
Ali Zamir was born in 1999 in Anjouan, Comoros. He has published two novels.

Thanks Dianne for bringing this book to my attention. I thought the one sentence worked well; sometimes these type of books are hard to read but this one wasn't.
The characters including their names were believable even though they were generally selfish and self-centred. The plot of a young girl done wrong by a man is nothing new but the voice the author gave to Eel and her head strong ways kept me entertained for the duration of the read.
There's also plenty of stuff about Comoros, clothing, customs and it's poor.