Three Strong Women

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Three women who almost had it all. Norah thinks she has made it when she qualifies as a lawyer in Paris; Fanta works her way into a prestigious teaching job in her home city; Khady runs a cafe with her loving husband – now all she wants is a child. But family ties, broken or reasserted, will force each woman to face a journey from France to Africa or from Africa to France that will take the future out of their hands and change their lives forever. Domineering fathers, weak lovers, the perilous road of the refugee – they will need all their courage and inner strength if they are to overcome.

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‘NDiaye will win the Nobel Prize’ New Yorker
A Booker International Prize Shortlistee and Winner of the Prix Goncourt.

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.

In Marie NDiaye’s stunning narration we see the progress by which ordinary women discover unimagined reserves of strength.

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Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 cm
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Cover

Paperback
Pages

272
Language

English
Edition

Reprint
Dewey

843.92 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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