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A wise writer selects from what she knows, rather than what she dreams. So with the stories here, dealing with domestic and working life amid the colonial-in-origin culture of Mauritius. A place so distant from the metropolitan centres of the empires that founded present-day Mauritius is a place where, by centrist definition, nothing ever really happens.Life goes on there, so the metropolitan myth asserts, but life
only in its most familiar and generic sense. Birth, Eat, Sleep, Love, Death—that catalogue of life and literature’s components—that E.M. Forster once asserted are
timeless subjects, need to be treated only generically, or so the centre pronounces. Their specific location doesn’t really matter; the pictures resemble a still life painting, in
that the bowl of fruit on the canvas could
only in its most familiar and generic sense. Birth, Eat, Sleep, Love, Death—that catalogue of life and literature’s components—that E.M. Forster once asserted are
timeless subjects, need to be treated only generically, or so the centre pronounces. Their specific location doesn’t really matter; the pictures resemble a still life painting, in
that the bowl of fruit on the canvas could
