About the author
Marie NDiaye is a French novelist and playwright whose work makes family cruelty, social humiliation, race, class, and transformation feel at once exact and uncanny.
Rosie Carpe, Three Strong Women, Ladivine, and That Time of Year show her range across realism and disquieting fable. The Witch concentrates those concerns in a mother whose powers are less valued than those of her daughters.
Where to start
Start with The Witch for a brief family fable, or Three Strong Women for NDiaye’s Prix Goncourt-winning novel.
