Three women face a journey that will change their lives forever. From Man Booker International Prize finalist, Marie NDiaye.
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, tyrannical father to save another victim of his paternity; Fanta, who leaves a modest but contented life as a teacher in Dakar to follow her white boyfriend back to France, where his delusional depression and sense of failure poison everything; and Khady, a penniless widow put out by her husband¿s family with nothing but the name of a distant cousin (the aforementioned Fanta) who lives in France, a place Khady can scarcely conceive of but toward which she must now take desperate flight
'The prose compels with its astonishing range and precision' Maya Jaggi, Guardian. Guardian
Marie NDiaye was born in France in 1967. She published her first novel at seventeen, and has won the Prix Femina (
Rosie Carpe in 2001) and the Prix Goncourt (
Three Strong Women, 2009). Her play "Papa Doit Manger" has been taken into the repertoire of the Comédie Française. Her novel
Ladivine (translated by Jordan Stump) was longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2016, and in 2020 she was awarded the Prix Marguerite Yourcenar for her entire body of work. She lives in Paris.
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Marie NDiaye was born in France in 1967. She published her first novel at seventeen, and has won the Prix Femina (Rosie Carpe in 2001) and the Prix Goncourt (Three Strong Women, 2009). Her play Papa Doit Manger has been taken into the repertoire of the Comédie Française. In 2007, after the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, NDiaye left France with her family to live in Berlin.
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A novel about 3 women who face a journey that will change their lives forever, translated from the French by John Fletcher. It won the Prix Goncourt 2009 and the 2010 Berlin Literature Prize. 'Extraordinarily powerful' Kate Saunders, "The Times"
