Ladivine by Ndiaye, Marie
Ladivine by Ndiaye, Marie

Ladivine

From the hugely acclaimed author of Three Strong Women--"a masterpiece of narrative ingenuity and emotional extremes" (The...
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Author: Marie Ndiaye
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Ladivine by Ndiaye, Marie

Ladivine

$42.24
Ladivine by Ndiaye, Marie

Ladivine

$42.24
Author: Marie Ndiaye
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
From the hugely acclaimed author of Three Strong Women--"a masterpiece of narrative ingenuity and emotional extremes" (The New York Times)--here is a harrowing and subtly crafted novel of a woman captive to a secret shame.

On the first Tuesday of every month, Clarisse Rivi re leaves her husband and young daughter and secretly takes the train to Bordeaux to visit her mother, Ladivine. Just as Clarisse's husband and daughter know nothing of Ladivine, Clarisse herself has hidden nearly every aspect of her adult life from this woman, whom she dreads and despises but also pities. Long ago abandoned by Clarisse's father, Ladivine works as a housecleaner and has no one but her daughter, whom she knows as Malinka.

After more than twenty-five years of this deception, the idyllic middle-class existence Clarisse has built from scratch can no longer survive inside the walls she's put up to protect it. Her untold anguish leaves her cold and guarded, her loved ones forever trapped outside, looking in. When her husband, Richard, finally leaves her, Clarisse finds comfort in the embrace of a volatile local man, Freddy Moliger. With Freddy, she finally feels reconciled to, or at least at ease with, her true self. But this peace comes at a terrible price. Clarisse will be brutally murdered, and it will be left to her now-grown daughter, who also bears the name Ladivine without knowing why, to work out who her mother was and what happened to her.

A mesmerizing and heart-stopping psychological tale of a trauma that ensnares three generations of women, Ladivine proves Marie NDiaye to be one of Europe's great storytellers.

Translated from the French by Jordan Stump

Author: Marie Ndiaye
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 04/26/2016
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.60w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780385351881


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/15/2015 pg. 63
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2016
Library Journal 03/01/2016 pg. 94
Publishers Weekly 02/29/2016
Booklist 04/01/2016 pg. 22
Shelf Awareness 05/03/2016
Library Journal 11/15/2015

About the Author
MARIE NDIAYE was born in Pithiviers, France, in 1967; spent her childhood with her French mother (her father was Senegalese); and studied linguistics at the Sorbonne. She was only eighteen when her first work was published. In 2001, she was awarded the prestigious Prix Femina for her novel Rosie Carpe; in 2009, the Prix Goncourt for Three Strong Women; and, in 2015, the Gold Medal in the Arts from the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts.


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