Three Strong Women
Author(s): Marie NDiaye
Forty-year-old Norah leaves Paris, her family and her career as a lawyer to visit her father in Dakar. It is an uncomfortable reunion - she is asked to use her skills as a lawyer to get her brother out of prison - and ultimately the trip endangers her marriage and her relationship with her own daughter, and drives her to the very edge of madness. Fanta, on the other hand, leaves Dakar to follow her husband Rudy to rural France. And it is through Rudy's bitter and guilt-ridden perspective that we see Fanta stagnate with boredom in this alien, narrow environment. Khady is forced into exile from Senegal because of poverty, because her husband is dead, because she is lonely and in despair. With other illegal immigrants, she embarks on a journey which takes her nowhere, but from which she will never return.
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Winner of Prix Goncourt 2009 and Internationaler Literaturpreis - Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2010.
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 Comedie Francaise. In 2007, after the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, NDiaye left France with her family to live in Berlin. John Fletcher is a professor at the University of Kent. His translation of The Georgics by Claude Simon won him the Scott-Moncrieff Prize.
General Fields
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- : Quercus Publishing Plc
- : MacLehose Press
- : 31 March 2012
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 August 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Marie NDiaye
- : Paperback
- : UK airports ed
- : 843.914
- : 288