Marie NDiaye, trans. from the French by Jordan Stump. Knopf, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-35188-1
Sadness, regret, and insidious dread permeate every page of this beautifully crafted, relentless novel. NDiaye’s (All My Friends) story chronicles a curse handed down from mother to daughter. Ladivine, a woman of mysterious origin, raises a daughter,
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Marie NDiaye, trans. from the French by Jordan Stump. Two Lines (PGW, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-1-931883-62-7
In this claustrophobic, slow-burning, surreal novel in the existentialist tradition, NDiaye (Ladivine) explores a contemporary French social problem. Two teachers, Nadia and her husband, Ange, find themselves suddenly and bizarrely being treated “lik
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Marie NDiaye, trans. from the French by Jordan Stump. Two Lines (PGW, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (140p) ISBN 978-1-931883-23-8
Inhabiting the tense, anxiety-riddled interstices where things fall apart, the five stories in this collection don't follow each other so much as collide like objects in a literary maelstrom, achieving a dizzying terminal velocity. NDiaye, who...
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Marie NDiaye, trans. from the French by John Fletcher. Knopf, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-59469-3
Three Senegalese women rely on their unshakable sense of self when faced with great disappointment in this novel from NDiaye, the first black woman to win France’s Prix Goncourt. Three loosely interwoven sections tell stories of women whose struggle
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Marie NDiaye, trans. from the French by Jordan Stump. Knopf, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-52047-4
The life and career of a majestically talented, intensely private master chef is narrated by her greatest admirer and loyal employee in NDiaye’s engrossing psychological novel (following My Heart Hemmed In). Born in the early 1950s in the...
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Marie Ndiaye, trans. from the French by Jordan Stump. Knopf, $28 (240p) ISBN 978-0-593-53424-3
Ndiaye’s magnetic and intense latest (after That Time of Year) follows a French lawyer’s downward spiral when she takes on a sensationalized murder case. Maître Susane, 42, is an undistinguished lawyer in Bordeaux whose life is upended when Gilles...
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Marie Ndiaye, trans. from the French by Jordan Stump. Two Lines, , $19.95 ISBN 978-1-931883-91-7
French writer Ndiaye (The Cheffe) serves up a blistering critique of bourgeois French society in this eerie tale. Herman, a Parisian teacher, is on vacation with his family in a remote village, and one stormy evening his wife and child disappear. As
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Marie Ndiaye, trans. from the French by Jordan Stump. Two Lines, $16.95 (110p) ISBN 978-1-949641-48-6
This thrillingly unconventional story from Ndiaye (That Time of Year) is all the more beguiling for resisting easy categorization or interpretation. Existing in an undefined space between fiction and memoir, the narrative is structured around a...
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