Marie Ndiaye

Author : Marie NDiaye
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307958532

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Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye Pdf

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. With lyrical intensity, Marie NDiaye masterfully evokes the relentless denial of dignity, to say nothing of happiness, in these lives caught between Africa and Europe. We see with stunning emotional exactitude how ordinary women discover unimagined reserves of strength, even as their humanity is chipped away. Three Strong Women admits us to an immigrant experience rarely if ever examined in fiction, but even more into the depths of the suffering heart.

Author : Marie NDiaye
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525520481

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The Cheffe by Marie NDiaye Pdf

From the celebrated French writer Marie NDiaye--Prix Goncourt-winning author of Three Strong Women--comes the story of the Cheffe: a woman who lives in the single-minded pursuit of creating incomparable culinary delights. Born into poverty in southwestern France, as a teenager the Cheffe takes a job working for a wealthy couple in a neighboring town. It is not long before it becomes clear that she has an unusual, remarkable talent for cooking, and soon her sheer talent and ambition put her in charge of the couple’s kitchen. Though she revels in the culinary spotlight, the Cheffe remains secretive about the rest of her life. She shares nothing of her feelings or emotions. She becomes pregnant but will not reveal her daughter’s father. And when the demands of her work become too great, she leaves her baby in the care of her family and sets out to open her own restaurant, to rave reviews. As time goes on, the Cheffe’s relationship with her daughter remains fraught, and eventually it threatens to destroy everything the Cheffe has spent her life perfecting. Told from the perspective of the Cheffe’s former assistant and unrequited lover, this stunning novel by Marie NDiaye is a gustatory tour de force.

Author : Marie NDiaye
Publisher : Influx Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910312902

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Self Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye Pdf

'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.

Author : Marie Ndiaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 194964149X

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That Time of Year by Marie Ndiaye Pdf

A nightmarish vision of otherness, privilege, and social amnesia, the latest from the world-renowned, Prix Goncourt-winning French novelist unveils a small community characterized by absurd kindness, labyrinthine bureaucracy, strange customs, missing persons, and ghostly apparitions.

Author : Marie NDiaye
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496229779

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Rosie Carpe by Marie NDiaye Pdf

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 himself Lagrand, actually be her disheveled white brother? Are her parents, who abandoned her in Paris, rediscovering themselves in an outrageous second youth of outlandish affairs, or have they simply lost their minds? And does Rosie have a hope of slipping the sticky grasp of her former employer and seducer, who moonlights as a video pornographer? If it seems unlikely that the feckless Lazare, missing for five years as he followed his own twisted path, might help, or that carnivalesque Guadeloupe, where murder and mayhem are the natural outcomes of “business ventures,” might be the place for Rosie to find peace, then Marie NDiaye may have a few surprises in store for her reader. Amid the blurring boundaries and shifting values, the indistinct realities and confusing certainties of Rosie Carpe, a love story unfolds, and all that is ambiguous and tenuous–in short, all of Rosie’s world–is underpinned with a measure of tenderness.

Author : Andrew Asibong
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781385678

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Marie NDiaye by Andrew Asibong Pdf

First critical study of prize-winning French author Marie NDiaye.

Author : Marie NDiaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1931883629

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My Heart Hemmed in by Marie NDiaye Pdf

Nadia, the Narrator, is a school teacher in Bordeaux in the same school as her husband, Ange. They live their profession as apostolates and gain an authentic happiness. But for some time, the couple is the subject of a general, harassing and inexplicable vengeance by the students. Nobody wants to sit in the front row anymore; no one wants to hear the sounds of their voices; the children seem to be afraid of them... Nadia tries to understand the nature of this strange conspiracy through the movement of the story.

Author : Marie NDiaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1931883238

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All My Friends by Marie NDiaye Pdf

Features five stories all dealing with the boundaries between individuals and illustrating how an idea of the world does not always match reality.

Author : Marie NDiaye
Publisher : Oberon Books
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112276246

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Hilda by Marie NDiaye Pdf

Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9782808000901

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Three Strong Women by Marie Ndiaye (Book Analysis) by Bright Summaries Pdf

Unlock the more straightforward side of Three Strong Women with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye. Three Strong Women is a somewhat unusual novel in that it is made up of three smaller tales which, although they appear to have little in common at first glance, come together to present an overall look at some of the struggles faced by women. The book was met with overwhelming praise when it was first published in 2009, propelling NDiaye to fame and winning France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt. Although she was born to a Senegalese father, Marie NDiaye considers herself French and has only been to Africa once. She published her first novel when she was only 17. Find out everything you need to know about Three Strong Women in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

Author : Shirley Jordan
Publisher : Legenda
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1781883815

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Marie NDiaye by Shirley Jordan Pdf

At stake throughout the fictional writings of Marie NDiaye (1967-) is the issue of the stranger's welcome. Engaging with critical theory on hospitality across the disciplines, Shirley Jordan's closely argued analysis of NDiaye's novels, theatre and short stories probes the tropes of inhospitality around which the writer's work coalesces.

Author : Andrew Asibong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846319464

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Marie NDiaye by Andrew Asibong Pdf

First critical study of prize-winning French author Marie NDiaye.

Author : Marie NDiaye
Publisher : Angela Royal Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020477407

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Among Family by Marie NDiaye Pdf

Fanny feels different to the rest of her family and makes it her life's work to gain their acceptance. However, in her quest to please she goes from one disaster to another, and she cannot see that the rift is as much due to her own shortcomings as to the pettiness of her family.

Author : Diana Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786941565

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Middlebrow Matters by Diana Holmes Pdf

This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France. It asks what middlebrow means, and applies the term positively to explore the 'poetics' of the types of novel that have attracted 'ordinary' fiction readers - in their majority female - since the end of the 19th century.

Author : Charles Forsdick,Claire Launchbury
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781789622713

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Transnational French Studies by Charles Forsdick,Claire Launchbury Pdf

The contributors to Transnational French Studies situate this disciplinary subfield of Modern Languages in actively transnational frameworks. The key objective of the volume is to define the core set of skills and methodologies that constitute the study of French culture as a transnational, transcultural and translingual phenomenon. Written by leading scholars within the field, chapters demonstrate the type of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities – both material and non-material – that are integral to what is referred to as French culture. The book considers the transnational dimensions of being human in the world by focussing on four key practices which constitute the object of study for students of French: language and multilingualism; the construction of transcultural places and the corresponding sense of space; the experience of time; and transnational subjectivities. The underlying premise of the volume is that the transnational is present (and has long been present) throughout what we define as French history and culture. Chapters address instances and phenomena associated with the transnational, from prehistory to the present, opening up the geopolitical map of French studies beyond France and including sites where communities identified as French have formed.