Marie Ndiaye

• Jul-1997
• / General Fiction
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This extraordinary novel from one of Europe's original and acclaimed authors, tells the tale of a young woman's determination to deny her individuality and conform at all costs. Rejected by her family for being different'. Fanny becomes obsessed with...

• Nov-2004
• / General Fiction
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When pregnant Rosie Carpe, her fatherless five-year-old son in tow, arrives in Guadeloupe looking for her elusive brother, Lazare, the world already seems a plenty confusing place. Could the man who comes to meet her, an elegant black man calling him...

• Aug-2012
• / Literary
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In this new novel, the first by a black woman ever to win the coveted Prix Goncourt, Marie NDiaye creates a luminous narrative triptych as harrowing as it is beautiful. This is the story of three women who say no: Norah, a French-born lawyer who f...

• May-2013
• / Literary
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A moody and beautiful reflection on relationships, and how our idea of the world too often fails to match reality, All My Friends delivers five stories that probe the boundaries between individuals to mediate on how well we really know anybody, inclu...

• May-2016
• / Fantasy
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A harrowing and subtly crafted novel of a woman captive to a secret shame. On the first Tuesday of every month, Clarisse Rivière leaves her husband and young daughter and secretly takes the train to Bordeaux to visit her mother, Ladivine. Just as...

• Jul-2017
• / Literary
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Marie NDiaye has long been celebrated for her unrivaled ability to make us see just how little we understand about ourselves. My Heart Hemmed In is her most powerful statement on the hidden selves that we rarely glimpse -- and are often shocked by.Th...

• Nov-2019
• / Literary
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From the Booker Prize-nominated author of Three Strong Women: an elegant, hypnotic new novel about a legendary French female chef--the facts her life, the nearly ineffable qualities of her cooking, and the obsessive, sometimes destructive desire for ...

• Sep-2020
• / Literary
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"Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement." -- The New York Review of BooksHerman’s wife and child are nowhere to be found, and the weather in the village, perfectly agreea...

• Mar-2021
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-2022
• / General Fiction
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Brimming with enigmatic photographs, future memes, and mud drawings, Visible showcases six genre-defying works from around the world that raise questions about the relationship between how we see, how we read, and how we write in “the...

• Oct-2023
• / Literary
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A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide that dredges up unsettling memories from a lawyerâ...