Marie NDiaye
Autore di Tre donne forti
Sull'Autore
Marie NDiaye was born on June 4, 1967 in Pithiviers, France. Her first novel, Quant au Riche Avenir, was published in 1985. Her novels and short stories include Autoportrait en vert, Mon couer a l'etroit, Trois femmes puissantes, and Ladivine. One of her plays, Papa Doit Manger, has been taken into mostra altro the repertoire of the Comédie Française. She also writes children's novels, essays and screenplays. Her awards include The 2001 Prix Femina for Rosie Carpe, the 2009 Prix Goncourt for Three Strong Women, and the 2015 Nelly Sachs Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: French author Marie NDiaye in 2013 By Sohn von Marie NDiaye - Foto gemacht vom Sohn von Marie NDiaye, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24858447
Opere di Marie NDiaye
Pomeriggio d'agosto.Racconto 1 copia
Opere correlate
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Collaboratore — 88 copie
La condition noire : Essai sur une minorité française (2008) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 11 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1965
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- France
- Luogo di nascita
- Pithiviers, France
- Luogo di residenza
- Pithiviers, Loiret, Centre, Frankrijk
- Istruzione
- Lycée Lakanal
Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy - Attività lavorative
- novelist
playwright - Relazioni
- Cendrey, Jean-Yves (husband)
N'Diaye, Pap (brother) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2013)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 40
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 1,621
- Popolarità
- #15,882
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 69
- ISBN
- 180
- Lingue
- 13
- Preferito da
- 1
Here we have Maitre Susane, a lawyer from a modest background. Middle-aged, never married, no children. Mildly successful, in that she can support herself, but not as successful as she dreamed she would be--or as she thinks her parents expected her to be.
When a new client comes to her office with the biggest case of her career, she wonders why. Is this man the boy she remembers from her past? And what does she remember?
With an extremely unreliable narrator who does not remember her own story and is led (astray or not?) by her elderly parents, the reader has no idea what actually happened on that day, who this man is, why her housekeeper and only serious ex she had are so chummy, and if everything is related or she is imagining them to be.… (altro)