Marie NDiaye
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the stories of three women who discover the power of saying no, including a lawyer who must save a victim of her tyrannical father, a Dakar teacher whose happiness is thwarted by a depressed boyfriend, and a penniless widow desperate to escape homelessness.
Author
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After his wife and child disappear at the end of their vacation in a small French village, Herman sets out to find them, only to find that his urgent inquiry immediately recedes into the background and he wittingly and not, becomes one with a society defined by its strange traditions, ghostly apparitions, hospitality that verges on mania, and a nightmarish act of collective forgetting"--
Author
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This special 10th-anniversary hardcover edition of Marie NDiaye's genre-defying classic restores photographs that appeared in the original French edition alongside Jordan Stump's dazzling translation, revealing in English, at last, the complete vision of NDiaye's influential masterpiece"--
5) Ladivine
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After a woman, Clarisse, is murdered on a trip to visit her mother in Bordeaux, her daughter tries to uncover what happened to her with the help of a brown dog who appears to have taken in the spirit of the deceased.
Clarisse's husband and daughter know nothing of her mother, Ladivine, and Clarisse has hidden nearly every aspect of her adult life from this woman, a housecleaner. After more than twenty-five years of deception the middle-class existence...
Author
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"There is something very wrong with Nadia and her husband Ange, middle-aged provincial schoolteachers who slowly realize that they are despised by everyone around them. One day a savage wound appears in Ange's stomach, and as Nadia fights to save her husband's life their hideous neighbor Noget--a man everyone insists is a famous author--inexplicably imposes his care upon them. While Noget fattens them with ever richer foods, Nadia embarks on a nightmarish...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A novel about a legendary French female chef--the facts of her life, the nearly ineffable qualities of her cooking, and the obsessive, sometimes destructive desire for purity of taste and experience that shaped her life. Continuing her tradition of writing provocative fiction about fascinating women, here Marie NDiaye gives us the story of a Great Female Chef--a chef who was celebrated as one of the best in a world where men dominate, and the way...
8) Saint Omer
Series
Criterion collection ; 1212
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
"Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving...
Series
Criterion collection ; 560
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
