Media Center: 'Three Strong Women" by Marie NDiaye
WHO: Marie NDiaye
WHAT:
THREE STRONG WOMEN,
a novel
WHEN:
Published by Knopf August 7, 2012
WHERE:
Set in France and Africa
WHY:
“A subtly beautiful novel.
“Three loosely interwoven sections tell stories of women whose struggle for self-preservation has irrevocably wounded them.
“When French lawyer Norah, summoned to Senegal by her estranged father, arrives, she finds her beloved brother in jail for murder and her father grown old. In Part II, Rudy brings Fanta, his Senegalese wife, back to France. Fanta has worked hard to pull herself out of poverty, only to now find herself plunged back in when the wealth Rudy promised never materializes. In Part III, Khady is kicked out by her late husband’s family to go live with Fanta in France. But she falls in with a questionable man who persuades her to make the dangerous journey with him…
“Each woman calls upon great strength to survive amid failure and humiliation, a feat that goes unnoticed by those around them. NDiaye’s quiet intelligence is made apparent by the complexity of her characters and her intuitive prose.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Unrelenting in its anger, pain and sorrow, but hard to put down.”
—KIRKUS, a starred review
Translated from the French
by John Fletcher.
Media Resources:
About the book | Author bio | Read an excerpt | Download the jacket or the author photo
Publicity:
Lena Khidritskaya | 212-572-2103 | lkhidritskaya@randomhouse.com