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Three Strong Women

Three Strong Women - Paperback

by Marie Ndiaye
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Availability:In StockContributor:Marie NdiayePublish date:2013-05-21Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307741332ISBN-10:307741338UPC:9780307741332Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Women, Family Life, LiteraryAward:2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Finalist - Fiction AwardSize:8.00 x 5.21 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SC3X7CATJB
A New York Times Notable Book
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2012
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012
Longlisted for The 2014 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award

From Marie NDiaye, the first black woman to win the Prix Goncourt, a harrowing and beautiful novel of the travails of West African immigrants in France.

The story of three women who say no: Norah, a French-born lawyer who finds herself in Senegal, summoned by her estranged father to save another victim of his paternity; Fanta, who leaves a contented life as a teacher in Dakar to follow her boyfriend back to France, where his depression and dislocation poison everything; and Khady, a penniless widow put out by her husband's family with nothing but the name of a distant cousin in France. As these three lives intertwine, each woman manages an astonishing feat of self-preservation against those who have made themselves the fastest-growing and most-reviled people in Europe. In Marie NDiaye's stunning narration we see the progress by which ordinary women discover unimagined reserves of strength.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307741332ISBN-10:307741338UPC:9780307741332Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Women, Family Life, LiteraryAward:2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Finalist - Fiction AwardSize:8.00 x 5.21 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SC3X7CATJB
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 started writing when she was twelve or thirteen years old and was only eighteen when her first work was published. In 2001 she was awarded the prestigious Prix Femina literary prize for her novel Rosie Carpe, and in 2009, the Prix Goncourt for Three Strong Women.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

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🏆 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Finalist - Fiction Award

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