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A Girl Called Eel

A Girl Called Eel

Contemporary LiteratureLiterary Fiction
Published
2019
Language
English
Prose complexity
6/10

Vibe

MelancholicReflectiveAtmospheric
Coming of AgeMorally GreyForbidden Love

Genres

Contemporary Literature Literary Fiction

Authors

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Ali Zamir

Ali Zamir is the author of the striking novel, A Girl Called Eel. His writing offers a direct and honest look at difficult subjects. Readers who appreciate powerful storytelling will find his work memorable.

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Aneesa Abbas Higgins

Aneesa Abbas Higgins is a literary translator specializing in contemporary French and Bosnian fiction. She is best known for translating Nina Bouraoui’s All Men Want to Know and Selvedin Avdić’s Seven Terrors. Her work brings modern European stories and memoirs to English-speaking readers.

Characters

Eel (Anguille)Protagonist

A seventeen-year-old woman on the Comoros islands who narrates her entire life story in one continuous sentence as she drifts at sea, facing imminent death.

All characters in A Girl Called Eel