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Nadia e seu marido, Ange, levam uma vida tranquila como professores dedicados de uma escola primária em Bordeaux, na França, até que começam a notar uma estranha e inesperada hostilidade vinda de amigos, vizinhos, alunos, colegas e de todos os demais habitantes de sua cidade.

Lucie comes from a long line of witches, ​powers passed down from mother to daughter. Her own mother was formidable in her gifts, but ashamed of her magic. Perhaps as a result, Lucie’s own talent is weak: she can see into the future, sometimes—but more often, she can only see the present of some other location. Most frustrating is that all she can ever see are insignificant details, snippets—a scrap of outfit, the color of the sky.

Tip-tap, tip-tap, quel est ce bruit dans la nuit ? C'est la diablesse qui va de maison en maison, à la recherche de son enfant perdu. Ses yeux sont tristes et pleins d'espoir. Elle sait qu'autrefois, il y a longtemps, elle avait un enfant, et aussi une maison.

Continuing her tradition of writing provocative fiction about fascinating women, here Marie NDiaye gives us the story of a Great Female Chef - a chef who was celebrated as one of the best in a world where men dominate, and the way that her pursuit of love, pleasure, and gustatory delights helped shape her life and career. Told from the perspective of her former assistant (and unrequited lover), now an aged chef himself, here is the story of a woman's quest to the front of the kitchen - and the extraordinary journey she takes along the way.

Trois récits, trois femmes qui disent non. Elles s'appellent Norah, Fanta, Khady Demba. Chacune se bat pour préserver sa dignité contre les humiliations que la vie lui inflige avec une obstination méthodique et incompréhensible.

The heroine of Marie NDiaye’s new novel is Maître Susane, a quiet middle-aged lawyer living a modest existence in Bordeaux, known to all as a consummate and unflappable professional. But when Gilles Principaux shows up at her office asking her to defend his wife, who is accused of a horrific crime, Maître Susane begins to crack.

Inspiré par l’artiste antillaise Marie Martinez, surnommée la Malibran noire, le récit met en scène une narratrice universitaire qui fait des recherches sur ce personnage. Son travail est perturbé par l’irruption dans sa vie d'une chanteuse qui pourrait bien avoir quelque chose à voir avec l'artiste que Nadar photographia du temps de sa splendeur, mais aussi de sa déchéance. Le texte de Marie N’Diaye retrace au prix de multiples détours, le parcours méconnu de la chanteuse Maria Martinez.

The first Tuesday of every month, Clarisse Rivière leaves her husband and young daughter to take the train to Bordeaux and visit her mother, Ladivine. Clarisse has concealed nearly every aspect of her adult life from this woman whom she dreads and despises but also pities, and who knows her as Malinka.