Marie Ndiaye: 9 books

Book cover of Self-Portrait in Green
by Marie NDiaye
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014

It seems there is no genre of writing Marie NDiaye will not make her own. Asked to write a memoir, she turned in this paranoid fantasia of rising floodwaters, walking corpses, eerie depictions of her very own parents, and the incessant reappearance of women in green. Just who are these green women?...
Book cover of Three Strong Women
by Marie NDiaye
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012

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 finds herself in Senegal, summoned by her estranged,...
Book cover of Ladivine

Ladivine

A novel

by Marie NDiaye
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016

From the hugely acclaimed author of Three Strong Women—“amasterpiece of narrative ingenuity and emotional extremes” (The New York Times)—here is 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...
Book cover of My Heart Hemmed In
by Marie NDiaye
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

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. There is something very wrong with Nadia and...
Book cover of The Cheffe

The Cheffe

A Cook's Novel

by Marie NDiaye
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019

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 purity of taste and experience that shaped her life. Continuing...
Book cover of All My Friends
by Marie NDiaye
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

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, including ourselves. Written in hypnotic prose with characters...
Book cover of Drie sterke vrouwen
by Marie NDiaye
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 14, 2013

Drie verhalen, drie vrouwen: Norah, Fanta en Khady Demba. Norah moet van haar vader naar Senegal komen om haar broer te verdedigen voor de rechtbank. Fanta volgt haar blanke man naar Frankrijk, waar hun huwelijk zware averij oploopt. Khady Demba, een jonge weduwe, wordt op weg gestuurd naar Europa....
Book cover of Ladivine
by Marie NDiaye
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 17, 2015

Clarisse houdt al jaren iets verborgen voor haar man en dochter: ze heet geen Clarisse maar Malinka. Ook gaat ze al jaren in het diepste geheim op bezoek bij haar moeder Ladivine, een arme schoonmaakster. Deze geheimen kosten Clarisse haar huwelijk. Na vijfentwintig jaar heeft haar man Richard genoeg...
Book cover of De tijd van het jaar
by Marie NDiaye
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 27, 2014

Herman, een zelfingenomen Parijse leraar, brengt al tien jaar lang de zomervakantie door op het Franse platteland. De opwelling om dit keer de terugreis naar Parijs enkele dagen uit te stellen heeft grote gevolgen, want vlak voor het vertrek verdwijnen zijn vrouw en kind spoorloos. Dan slaat het weer...
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